Reading French Psychoanalysis Birksted-Breen Dana Training and Supervising Analyst British Psychoanalytical Society UK

How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field?In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Alain Gibeault of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society provide an overview of how French psychoanalysis has developed since Lacan. Seminal and representative papers have been chosen to illuminate what is special about French thinking. Focusing primarily on the work of psychoanalysts from the French Psychoanalytical Association and from the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, the two British psychoanalysts view the evolution of theory as it appears to them from the outside, while the French psychoanalyst explains and elaborates from inside the French psychoanalytic discourse.

A substantial general introduction argues in favour of the specificity of 'French psychoanalysis', tracing its