The work of psychic figurability : mental states without representation / Cesar Botella and Sara Botella ; with an introduction by Michael Parsons ; translated by Andrew Weller, with the collaboration of Monique Zerbib.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.

Introduction / Michael Parsons -- 1. The limits of thought : Paris-London back and forth -- 2. The negative duality of the psyche -- 3. Non-representation -- 4. The geometer and the psychoanalyst -- 5. Figurability and the work of figurability -- 6. On the auto-erotic deficiency of the paranoiac -- 7. Working as a double -- 8. 'Only inside - also outside' -- 9. A community in the regression of thought -- 10. The engative of the trauma -- 11. The hallucinatory -- 12. Mysticism, knowledge and trauma -- 13. A psychoanalytic approach to perception -- 14. 'The lost object of hallucinatory satisfaction'.

"Cesar and Sara Botella set out to address what they call the work of figurability as a way of outlining the passage from the unrepresentable to the representational. They develop a conception of psychic functioning that is essentially grounded in the inseparability of the negative, trauma and the emergence of intelligibility, and describe the analyst's work of figurability arising from the formal regression of his thinking during the session, which proves to be the best and perhaps the only means of access to this state beyond the mnemic trace which is memory without recollection." "The Work of Psychic Figurability argues that taking this work into consideration at the heart of the theory of practice is indispensable. Without this, the analytic process is too often in danger of slipping into interminable analyses, into negative therapeutic reactions or, indeed, into disappointing successive analyses."--BOOK JACKET.

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