Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis

Bice Benvenuto is the author of several previous books including The Works of Jacques Lacan: An Introduction (co-authored with Roger Kennedy, Free Association Books, 1986). The author is a member of the Ecole Europeenne de Psychanalyse (Paris) and has been practising and teaching psychoanalysis in London for the last 12 years.

Acknowledgements. Preface.

A Note on the Ancient Mysteries.

Part I: .

1. A Discourse on Love.

2. What is the Psychoanalyst Supposed to Know?.

3. The Passion of Childhood Interlude: Madness in Philosophy, or Derrida's Love of Lacan.

Part II: .

4. Hysteria: Comedy. Dell'arte. .

5. Compliance and Disagreement.

6. The Paradoxes of the Earthly Woman.

Part III: .

7. A Myth in Development: The Case of Little Hans.

8. Winnicott's "Piggle".

9. Klein's Narrative. .

Part IV: .

10. To Die of Shame.

Time to Conclude.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.