(2001). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 82:411-413 Review by: John Churcher Psychoanalytic Ideas is a new series published by the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. The series editor is Inge Wise, and these are the first two titles. Each is a slim, inexpensive paperback consisting of an editorial introduction followed by half a dozen short papers originally given as public lectures by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Lectures given before a live audience, and later collected and published, have a distinguished history in psychoanalytic education. The lectures that Freud gave ‘before an audience of doctors and laymen of both sexes’ (1916-17, p. 9) in Vienna, are still widely read as an introductory text. Other notable examples include Rickman (1936), Klein and Riviere (1937), Sutherland (1968), Joffe (1968), Symington (1986) and Anderson (1992). Common to these, through successive generations of psychoanalytic writing, are a clarity and economy of style, and an alive-ness, which make them a pleasure to read. This new s [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
