The Klein-Lacan Dialogues

Synopsis:

Designed to highlight the differences and similarities between the two schools, leading Kleinians and Lacanians each write on a specific topic, from clinical technique to transference. Also includes interviews with Donald Meltzer and Eric Laurent.

Notes about the author(s):

Bernard Burgoyne is a psychoanalyst practising in London. He is a Member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and the University of Paris, and is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis in the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at Middlesex University. He has published extensively on questions of structure in psychoanalysis, and is particularly concerned with the way in which the predicaments of human interactions are resolvable only by a consideration of the frontiers of desire and the texture of space.