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| Foreword | vii |
| Preface | xviii |
| Chapter 1 “Broadmindedness” | 1 |
| Dispersion | 3 |
| A So-Called Archeological Mode of Listening | 5 |
| Nothing but Fictions | 9 |
| Psychoanalysis with a Human Face? | 13 |
| Chapter 2 Delayed Reactions | 19 |
| A Clinical Practice Free from Speculation? | 20 |
| The Person as Agent? | 22 |
| Metaphysical Complicities? | 24 |
| Attending to the Sickbed of Generalisation | 27 |
| Chapter 3 Hermeneutics and the Postmodern Turn | 37 |
| How not to be Relativistic? | 37 |
| Hermeneutical Thrust | 41 |
| Narrative Doing | 45 |
| Who’s Afraid of the Postmodern? | 49 |
| Chapter 4 “Unpower,” Apathy | 57 |
| A “Conversational Partner”? | 57 |
| The Incommensurable | 61 |
| The Praise of Intensities | 64 |
| Chapter 5 Empathy: A New Common Ground? | 71 |
| An Ill-Posed Problem | 72 |
| The Empathic Analyst’s New Clothes | 76 |
| Pulling out the Poison Fangs of Psychoanalysis | 80 |
| Chapter 6 A Strange Misadventure | 87 |
| Chapter 7 Clinical Supplement: Creativity of Metapsychology | 91 |
| “Feeling Embarrassed” | 91 |
| What is Said to Us and What is Done to Us | 93 |
| Presenting, Representing | 97 |
| The Analyst’s Unconscious Sensibility | 101 |
| Filling a Hole | 107 |
| Index | 115 |
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