In the Traces of Our Name

The book is grounded in psychoanalytic thinking, but it is also placed at an intersection of several fields of thought: linguistics, anthropology and literature. The focus of the book is the primary importance for the constitution of the child's subjectivity of the first or second names chosen by the parents, the scaffolding of the child's future identity and a legacy offered and attributed to children by those who precede them. This book is above all the result of psychoanalytic reflection developed through the clinical work of a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of children and adolescents.

ISBN 1780490275   Pages 208 ISBN13 9781780490274 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 363 Publisher Karnac Books   Published in London Imprint Karnac Books   Height (mm) 230 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 147 Publication date 01 Aug 2011   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 150.195   Academic level Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC22

When we wish to preserve our patients' anonymity, we refer to them as Mr or Mrs X or we call them an imaginary given name - Hans or Dora, for example - as if a false first name could replace the proper name without consequences. Psychoanalysts have written a good deal about the influence of the patronym but very little about that of the given name. We must be grateful to J. E. Tesone for dedicating an original and very well documented study to a subject that actually calls upon us in every psychoanalytic cure. His great clinical experience and double Argentine and French culture enable him to address this theme with high clinical finesse and all the wealth of his cultural sources. This work offers its reader a goldmine of reflections that can easily be applied to clinical practice and to a deeper understanding of the effects of transmissions of family symbolism. Professor Daniel Widlocher, full member of the French Psychoanalytical Association, past-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association

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