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As its title suggests, this stimulating and sometimes provocative book aims to make us think and to disturb us in our habits. It seeks to rid us of our certainties, to unburden our thought and to restore our capacity for listening as practising analysts—a capacity too often bogged down in ideologies and in a conventionalism reflecting a loss of hope in psychoanalysis. To this end the author flexibly combines rigorous theoretical demonstration with a keen clinical eye, interweaving the two aspects without dogmatism. And indeed, his practice reveals an analyst of modesty, humanity and intellectual rigour, while his theorising bears witness to a highly (im)pertinent critical mind.
Being French, I was impressed by his knowledge of French psychoanalysis and very sensitive to how he wields it as a prime—but not exclusive—theoretical tool for questioning his profoundly British training and thought. Kohon's Argentinian origins are surely relevant here, considering the openness of Argentina's culture to the various currents of world psychoanalysis. He thus uses a number of French authors in effect as