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Psychoanalysis and Discourse The New Library of Psychoanalysis is published in association with the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. The New Library has been launched to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of what psychoanalysis is really about and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those working in other disciplines like history, linguistics, literature, medicine, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences. It is planned to publish a limited number of books each year in an accessible form and to select those contributions which deepen and develop psychoanalytic thinking and technique, contribute to psychoanalysis from outside, or contribute to other disciplines from a psychoanalytical perspective. The Institute, together with the British Psycho-Analytical Society, runs a low-fee psychoanalytic clinic, organizes lectures and scientific events concerned with psychoanalysis, publishes the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and the International Review of Psycho-Analysis, and runs the only training course in the UK in psychoanalysis leading to membership of the International Psychoanalytical Association—the body which preserves internationally-agreed standards of training, of professional entry, and of professional ethics and practice for psychoanalysis as initiated and developed by Sigmund Freud. Distinguished members of the Institute have included Wilfred Bion, Anna Freud, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, John Rickman, and Donald Winnicott. NEW LIBRARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 2 General editor: David Tuckett Psychoanalysis and Discourse PATRICK J.MAHONY First published in 1987 by Tavistock Publications Ltd 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA and Canada by Brunner-Routledge, 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge's collection of thousands of eBooks please go to w.w.w. eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1987 Patrick J.Mahony All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Mahony, Patrick J. Psychoanalysis and discourse.—(The New library of psychoanalysis; 2) 1. Psychoanalysis I. Title II. Series 150.19′5 BF173 ISBN 0-422-61030-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mahony, Patrick, 1937– Psychoanalysis and discourse. (New library of psychoanalysis; 2) Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Psychotherapy patients—Language. 2. Psycho analysis. 3. Psychoanalysis and literature. I. Title. II. Series. RC489.P73M34 1987 616.89′17 86–30175 ISBN 0-203-36286-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-37546-7 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-422-61030-5 (Print Edition) Contents Introduction vii Part One: Discourse and the clinical context 1 2 3 4 5 6 Towards the understanding of translation in psychoanalysis The boundaries of free association The place of psychoanalytic treatment in the history of discourse Freud’s interpretation of dreams, semiology, and Chomskian linguistics Towards a formalist approach to Freud’s central dream Imitative elaboration in the oral reporting of dreams: another formal feature of dream interpretation 3 13 45 69 82 104 Part Two: Non-clinical discourse and psychoanalysis 7 Further thoughts on Freud and his writing 8 The budding International Association of Psychoanalysis and its discontents: a feature of Freud’s discours