A New Language for Psychoanalysis

"Should be of considerable interest to a wider public since it proposes a radical reformulation of psychoanalytical theory which if accepted would render outmoded almost all the analytical jargon that has crept into the language of progressive enlightened post-Freudian people."-Charles Rycroft The New York Review of Books "Schafers arguments have considerable cogency. The tendency to over-theorize so that the translation of abstractions into the language of ordinary discourse between analyst and patient has become increasingly difficult is a fault; Schafer goes a long way towards redressing it and his efforts to include meaning and the person in the form of his language is an achievement."-Michael Fordham The Times Higher Education Supplement