COVER -- CONTENTS -- PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS AND APPLICATIONS SERIES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- PRESENTATION Marilyn Monroe: death of an icon -- PART I THEORETICAL STUDY -- CHAPTER ONE From the treatment of neuroses to the crisis of psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER TWO Lacanian thinking on language -- CHAPTER THREE The setting and its interpretation -- CHAPTER FOUR Die Entstellung -- CHAPTER FIVE The metaphorization of analytic speech -- CHAPTER SIX The negative therapeutic reaction -- CHAPTER SEVEN The notion of failure -- CHAPTER EIGHT Variety of traumas -- CHAPTER NINE Some effects of the primitive superego -- CHAPTER TEN The ego prior to repression -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Libidinal styles -- CHAPTER TWELVE Drive fusion and defusion -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The modifications of the ego and the work of the negative -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Diverse critical situations and acute somatizations -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Causes and remedies -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Recent suggestions concerning the treatment of cases resistant to the therapeutic effect of analysis -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Methodological principles of psychoanalysis and the psychotherapies -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Conclusions -- PART II CLINICAL STUDY -- Introduction -- (A) Some examples drawn from the experience of collaborators -- (B) Personal memories of some case histories -- PART III ILLUSIONS AND DISILLUSIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK -- (I) The internalization of the negative -- (II) Hypotheses concerning the negative beyond clinical findings -- (III) An encounter at the end of the journey -- POSTSCRIPT Clinical passion, complex thinking: towards the psychoanalysis of the future -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.