This book compares different psychoanalytic thinking and models - from a rigorously Freudian perspective - on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: 'Language', 'Symbolization', and 'Psychoses'. These concepts are significantly interwoven with each other both in personal development as well as in the atypical and i
Foreword -- Language, symbolization, and psychosis: an introduction -- A
psychoanalytic enquiry into Pandoras box: symbol and metaphor -- Deciphering
the secrets of oblivion -- Self formation, symbolic capacity, and spontaneity
-- A language for remembering the future -- Symbolization and psychosis: the
mediating function of images in individual psychoanalytic psychodrama --
White Psychoses: silence and delusions -- When actions speak louder than
words -- Reflections on listening to and speaking with the patient during
analysis -- The past unconscious and the present unconscious -- The mystery
of the unsaid name: commonalities between God and Rumpelstiltskin -- Texts
and pre-texts in psychoanalytic clinical practice: languages and idioms --
Symbolism in love and sex -- Does the Pierces semiotic model based on index,
icon, symbol have anything to do with psychoanalysis? -- The foreign language
Ambrosio, Giovanna
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