The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Raul Moncayo (PhD) is a licensed psychologist in California, supervising analyst and founding member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA. Dr. Moncayo was previously the Training Director of a large psychiatric clinic for many years. He has been an adjunct faculty and visiting professor both locally and abroad and is the author of seven books.

Introduction; 1. Lacanian Theory and a Multidimensional and Topological Approach to Diagnoses; 2. The Graph of Desire, the Signifying Chain(s), and the late Lacan; 3. The Clinical Evidence for Psychoanalysis, Standard and Non-Standard Frames, and the Question of Pure and Applied Psychoanalysis; 4. Preliminary Considerations; 5. The Singular Frame, Logical Time, and the Scansion of Sessions; 6. The Subject Supposed to know(ing), Love and Hate, and the Question of the Negative Transference; 7. The Three Payments of the Analyst and the Direction of the Treatment; 8. Interpretation: Punctuation, Citation, and the Scansion of Speech; 9. The Resistance of the Analyst, the Desire of the Analyst, and the Countertransference; 10. The Function of the One in Sexual Difference and the Question of Feminine Jouissance; 11. Time, Phases of Analysis and Oedipus in Analytic Treatments Writ Large (Applied Psychoanalysis); 12. Termination: The Third Phase of Pure Analysis: The Aim and End of Analysis Proper; 13. Clinical Psychoanalysis in the Public Clinic and the Question of Trauma; Appendices