THE COURAGE TO READ - Paperback

and other essays in psychoanalysis Interesting and well-argued, we could define Paula Hochman's work as a necessary book. It presents and organizes the topics of psychoanalysis in an enlightening statement: “…it is because the word makes the thing, that the only assistance to Truth is the recourse to logic and the writing of a topology of the subject.” In The Courage to Read, the Author indeed offers precise indications on the task of the analysand; thus, in the Expanded Negation, she clarifies how important it is to rely on logic, using Jean Michel Vappereau's suggestion, namely his slight modification to write partial negations: therefore, using logic in psychoanalytic work to speak better; in Narcissism, Paula aptly incorporates the Freudian concept of Lacan's mirror stage to present topologically the intrinsic and extrinsic structural to the constitution of the body in language; in Pubescent, she explores the secret linguistic structure of reality for the parlêtre of Lacanian memory and the relief that the construction of a refined fiction brings to life; in Reading the Metaphor, the difference between the position of naive, incredulous to arrive precisely at the practice of discourse is clearly evident; finally, in The Sweet False Hole, she introduces the instance of writing as a resource so that the subject can literally anchor themselves to the chain of the signifier. A text that illuminates and supports in psychoanalytic clinic. number of pages: 79 Author: Paula Hochman Lucia Cuneo