Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

I: DIAGNOSTICS AND DISCOURSE

  1. Introduction: Clinical Psychodiagnostics versus Medical Diagnostics

  2. Categorical Diagnostics versus Clinical Praxis: A Matter of Impossibility

  3. The Impotence of Epistemology

  4. Know-how in Clinical Practice: Doxa as the Result of Impotence and Impossibility

  5. Conclusion: The Need for a Metapsychology

II: METAPSYCHOLOGY

  6. Identity as a Relational Structure

  7. Defense in Double Time: A Linear Model

  8. From a Linear to a Circular Model: On Becoming a Subject

  9. Etiology and Evolution: Nature, Nurture, and the Theory of the Drive

10. Conclusion: The Subject’s Position in Relation to Anxiety, Guilt, and Depression

III: POSITIONS AND STRUCTURES OF THE SUBJECT

11. The Actualpathological Position: Panic Disorder and Somatization

12. Between Actualpathology and Psychopathology: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline

13. The Psychopathological Position of the Subject: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis

14. Perverse Structure versus Perverse Traits

15. The Psychotic Structure of the Subject

CONCLUSION: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

References

Index