Table of Contents

1. The emergence of desire and thought

2. Semantic and semiological vicissitudes of the term Nachträglichkeit

3. The work of Freud and his followers as a clinical illustration of the operation of après-coup

4. Evolving clinical situations

5. Metapsychological approach to the concept of après-coup

6. A theory of human thought

7. Saturation in dreams, sessions and sciences

8. Après-coup and bodily erogeneity

9. The missing trace and feelings of lack

10. The foundational murder and the superego

About the Author

Bernard Chervet is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and a former SPP President. He is a European Representative on the IPA Board of Representatives and the IPA ExCom and Scientific Director of the Congress of French-Speaking Psychoanalysts (CPLF). His numerous and distinguished publications cover a wide range of clinical and theoretical psychoanalytic topics. He was awarded the Bouvet Prize in 2017 for his work.

Reviews

"This book is essential and should be read by all psychoanalysts and students. Chervet’s deep and early interest in the concept of Après-coup (Nachträglichkeit) as an organizer of human thought and therefore of any analytic process is original and enthralling." – Marilia Aisenstein, Paris Psychoanalytical Society; editor, Psychosomatics Today: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (Routledge) "Bernard Chervet is one of the most creative contemporary French psychoanalytic thinkers. In this book, he develops original contributions to psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice around the concept of Après-coup. It is a remarkable contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and practice." – Claudio Laks Eizirik, Former President, International Psychoanalytic Association; Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.