Freud: A Mosaic

by Roger Hunt

This monograph was written in the heat of a kind of intellectual defense against the feelings of psychosis experienced during my fieldwork training to become an analyst. Its coming into being required such an induction as it synthesizes sporadic thoughts which have been plaguing me for sometime now. The discourse is - to put it one way - organic; though embedded within the chaos is a model of behavior based on psychoanalytic theory which can be used to conceptualize the explosion of data emanating from the neurosciences. This is also a reflection on how psychoanalytic theory can take over your mind, if you only let it. You, if you are an empathic reader, should be able to sense the various feeling states I was in while writing these sections, and hopefully use that recognition to organize the plethora of theoretical meanderings into a understanding of psychoanalysis all your own.

126 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2012