Freud's most important contribution was arguably to discover (or invent) the psychoanalytic situation itself. Ellen Pinsky reexamines fundamental principles underlying by-now-dusty terms such as "neutrality," "abstinence," "working through," and the peculiar expression "termination." Pinsky reconsiders-in some measure, hopes to restore-the most essential, humane, and useful components of the original psychoanalytic perspective, guided by the most productive threads in the discipline's still-evolving theory. That blur, or degree of confusion, invites new ways of reading. At every moment, the analyst's vulnerability and human limitations underlie the work, something rarely openly acknowledged.įreud’s central insights continue to guide the range of all talking therapies, but they do so somewhat in the manner of a smudged ancestral map.
That the therapist can die, and is also fallible, can be seen as necessary or even defining components of the therapeutic process. Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter considers psychoanalysis from a fresh perspective: the therapist’s mortality-in at least two senses of the word.
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