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Truth in the Time of Disinformation: Psychoanalytic Insights

Editor : Jean Arundale

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the editor and contributors
Introduction by Jean Arundale

Part I: Psychoanalytic truth: The arguments

1. On language and truth in psychoanalysis
Thomas H. Ogden

2. Belief and psychic reality
Ronald Britton

3. Do unconscious phantasies really exist?
Mark Solms

4. The expansion of the notion of truth in psychoanalytic inquiry
Jorge L. Ahumada

5. Is truth an illusion? Psychoanalysis and postmodernism
David Bell

6. What does research have to do with psychoanalysis?
Gregorio Kohon

7. In the space of conjunction: Discussion of Gregorio Kohon’s “What does research have to do with psychoanalysis?”
Alessandra Lemma


Part II: The whole truth and nothing but the truth?

8. Psychoanalysis and freedom of thought
Hanna Segal

9. Illusion, disillusion, and irony in psychoanalysis
John Steiner

10. Symbolisation, representation, and the role of narration in overcoming traumatic experience. The many faces of psychic truth
Elias M. da Rocha Barros

11. Freud’s “probability of truth”: Construction and reconstruction
Sara Collins


Part III: The particularity of truth

12. On Bion’s concept of truth in an extra-moral sense
Giuseppe Civitarese

13. Democracy, parrhesia and the psychoanalysts’ freedom of thought
Eran J. Rolnik

14. The poetic truth of the unconscious: Metaphor, meaning, and the analytic encounter
David Morgan

15. On self traumatisation
Christopher Bollas

16. The truth will set you free: Explorations into psychoanalytic truth and freedom
Jean Arundale

Index