Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents Further Notes on the Child

Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on 'the object relation' and his 'Note on the Child' of 1969 have been adopted by Lacanian analysts working with children as providing essential coordinates for direction in their clinical work. This book is the result of inviting psychoanalysts of the Lacanian orientation working with children around the globe to theorise and conceptualise that work. The Lacanian psychoanalyst works with the notion of the subject as a 'speaking being', but the child subject brings particular exigencies to the psychoanalytic work. Contributors attend to these exigencies in their essays by articulating the precise particularities of the direction of the treatment and psychoanalytic work with children.

Introduction Further notes on the child ... , Directing the Treatment , Lacanian psychoanalysis with children: framing challenges and inventions , Transference in analytic work with children and adolescents: the space and time of demand , Seminars on child psychoanalysis , Dolto, Klein, and Lacan in a polylogue or the Agora effect in the Maison Verte-UK , Clinical Structures (Edges, Limits, Boundaries) , Psychoanalysis with children, the work with the parents, and the clinical structures , From childhood psychosis to neurosis , Rapunzel: a necessary unravelling , Pushing the envelope: a skinful of trauma , Symptoms and Systems , The watershed of the symptom: from Rhine to Rhône with Piaget and Spielrein , Transference today and the necessity of invention—notes on working with adolescence , The symptom and the system: notes on the foster child , Sex and terror: psychoanalysis with adolescents in an Irish sexual health service , "Father": Inventions and Reinventions , To invent a father ... , The Father of the Name: a child's analysis through the last teachings of Lacan , New Kids: (Post-) Modern Subjects of Technologies, Global Capitalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Bio-Medicine , Psychoanalysis and neonatology , The "iMirror stage": not-so-smartphones and the pre-schooler—some clinical observations , Making a difference: on the non-rapport of psychoanalysis and the discourse of "trans" , Left to their own devices? Child psychoanalysis and the psycho-technologies of consumer capitalism

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