{"title":"Bruce Fink","description":"\u003cp\u003eBruce Fink’s works provide a profound exploration of psychoanalytic theory, particularly through the lens of Lacanian thought. His writing blends rigorous clinical insight with philosophical inquiry, offering a comprehensive introduction to Freud and Lacan’s complex ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations of psychoanalytic technique and the nature of subjectivity, with an emphasis on how these theories intersect with love, language, and the unconscious. 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Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce \"the death of the subject,\" Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our parents' desires that led them to bring us into this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucidly guiding readers through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory, unpacking such central notions as the Other, object a, the unconscious as structured like a language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance, and sexual difference, Fink demonstrates in-depth knowledge of Lacan's theoretical and clinical work. Indeed, this is the first book to appear in English that displays a firm grasp of both the theory and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis, with the author being one of the only Americans to have undergone full training with Lacan's school in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFink leads the reader step by step into Lacan's conceptual system to explain how one comes to be a subject—leading to psychosis. Presenting Lacan's theory in the context of his clinical preoccupations, Fink provides the most balanced, sophisticated, and penetrating view of Lacan's work to date—an invaluable resource to both the initiated and the uninitiated alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000790499564,"sku":"9780691015897","price":99.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/146113482434.jpg?v=1763305160"},{"product_id":"a-clinical-introduction-to-freud-by-bruce-fink-9780393711967","title":"A Clinical Introduction to Freud","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOften overlooked because he is so easy to mock, ridicule, or just plain misunderstand, Freud introduced many techniques for clinical practice that are still widely employed today. Yet surprisingly, there has never been a clinical introduction to Freud's work that might be of use to students and professionals in their everyday lives and careers. Until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBruce Fink, who is his generation's most respected translator of Lacan's work and a profound interpreter of Freud's, has written the definitive clinical introduction to Freud. This book presents Freud in an eminently usable way, providing readers with a plethora of examples from everyday life and clinical practice illustrating the insightfulness and continued applicability of Freud's ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe overriding focus is on techniques Freud developed for going directly toward the unconscious, illustrating how we can employ them today and perhaps even improve on them. 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By examining transference and countertransference in detail through the use of clinical vignettes, Fink lays out the major differences (regarding transference interpretation, self-disclosure, projective identification, and the therapeutic frame) between mainstream psychoanalytic practice and Lacanian practice. He critiques the ever more prevalent normalising attitude in psychoanalysis today and presents crucial facets of Lacan's approach to the treatment of neurosis, as well as his entirely different approach to the treatment of psychosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique\u003c\/em\u003e is an introduction to psychoanalytic technique from a Lacanian perspective that is based on Fink's many years of experience working as an analyst and supervising clinicians, including graduate students in clinical psychology, social workers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, and psychoanalysts. 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Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCan psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about \u003cem\u003ewhat love really is\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can. Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions – from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism – and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan’s paradoxical claim that \u003cem\u003elove is giving what you don’t have\u003c\/em\u003e. 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