How Does Analysis Work?: Examples of Lacanian Interpretation

How Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works.

Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and non-meanings all feature in these anonymous accounts of crucial moments in analysis, providing a sense of what it is all about. Drawn from a wide range of analysands, some seasoned analysts and others just starting out, these vignettes show how change takes place. The short pieces are drawn from Lacanian analysis, but many go against cliched views of what Lacanians do in their work, spanning both the classical and the radically innovative and showing the use of humour and theatre in psychoanalytic practice.

How Does Analysis Work? will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and Lacanian analysts in practice and in training, as well as anyone who is curious about the analytic process.

Berjanet Jazani is a medical doctor and practicing psychoanalyst based in London, UK. She is the president of the College of Psychoanalysts (UK), clinical member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR), and the author of Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture; Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations; and The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity (all Routledge).