Product Description

"In his fifth book Thomas Ogden, widely regarded as the most profound and original psychoanalytic writer of this decade, explores the frontier of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking: the experience of the analyst and patient in the dynamic interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1671325 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 296 pages

Review
"One of the leading psychoanalytic theorists of our time dissects the fundamental components of the analytic situation..." -- Glen O. Gabbard, author of Love & Hate in the Analytic Setting

"This book is a masterpiece that captures what is most important about psychoanalysis." -- L. Bryce Boyer

Customer Reviews

The pain of being.
It often seems to this reviewer as if Ogden wished to fully take flight into his touching and poetic conception of psychoanalysis only to quickly withdraw into safer, heavier territories.
This is a somewhat uneven book whose coruscating prologue and chapter on language contrast with what can only come across as murky if one has dared to venture into the fabric of life itself. Let us focus then on what Ogden does marvelously.
His approach on aliveness and deadness in psychoanalysis--and in all life, for that matter--are intimately and searingly rendered. The reader is brought closer and closer to the binding havens in which we all find refuge and is encouraged to loosen the knots, to feel all that is implied in simply being human. It becomes clear as one reads that there could be no greater challenge, nor greater beauty.

extension of ogden's relational perspective
An excellent in depth exploration of reverie and interpretation from an intersubjective perspective.clinical examples are clear and distinct in their depiction of the codetermined nature of the analytic third and the overall analytic process.