In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the misguided attempts to simplify and/or reduce it to either art or science.
Kohon disputes the contemporary use of parameters offered by evidence-based medicine as a research model to study psychoanalysis. Instead, he proposes to reconsider the relevance of the psychoanalytic single...
Gregorio Kohon is a Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Among other books, he edited The Dead Mother: The Work of André Green (1999) and British Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on the Independent Tradition (2018). He also published Love and its Vicissitudes (co-authored with André Green, 2005) and Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny (2016).
'"Do psychoanalysts have a story to tell?", asks Gregorio Kohon. Yes, he says, but not one that everybody wants to hear. Kohon presents psychoanalysis as a unique relationship between individuals that in principle can never be understood completely. He criticises attempts to tame psychoanalysis, making it more manageable by distorting its essential singularity. The book’s wide-ranging discussion of these themes is enjoyably clear and direct. Kohon relates psychoanalysis to...
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