The Marks of a Psychoanalysis

Is someone radically different after an analysis? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been questioned about what the psychoanalytic experience can change in someone's life beyond shedding light on symptoms. Drawing on literature, philosophy and a range of psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, the author addresses the effects of psychoanalysis on the individual who has the desire and the courage to enter an analytic treatment and take it to its endpoint. The subject bears the marks of his childhood and these have repercussions on the choices that he makes in life. Do these marks determine him or does he have a choice in making his destiny? How do the transformations brought about in the transference change the subject? And does the analysis leave a distinguishing and locatable mark? The author attempts to answer these questions from a Lacanian perspective.

Luis Izcovich

Introduction , The Mark of Time , Time and the unconscious , Borges, Lacan, poetry, time , Haste and exit , The moments to conclude , The Mark of the Symptom , The necessary symptom , What holds together , Lapsus of the knot , The writing of the symptom , The Mark of Separation , The clinic of limits , How did Winnicott analyse? , Ferenczi or the effaced trauma , Identity and separation , The mark of the father , The Effective Mark , The being of jouissance , Scraps of discourse , The sense of the sense-less , Grimaces of the real or the marks of repetition , Letter and nomination , The Mark of the Desire of the Analyst , The true journey , The marks of interpretation , The desire of the analyst or the mark of gay sçavoir , Unprecedented satisfaction or the mark of the ending , The desire of the analyst and absolute difference , Postscript