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...hard time for purists, especially traditional Freudians who believe that the psychoanalyst should keep a chilly distance. Free association and the transfer of buried memories to the doctor-patient relationship, they believe, work better in an uncongenial atmosphere. This is not a popular notion especially at a time when people fear being stuffy if they do not establish an immediate first-name relationship with their muggers. Says Aaron Green, the pseudonymous New York analyst whose good-natured fatalism forms the tough core of Malcolm's book: "No one likes to hurt people-to cause them pain, to stand silently...
What drives a psychoanalyst? Says Green, citing cowardice and selfishness: "It's a situation of very comfortable abstinence. A situation of not getting involved with the other person, of not taking responsibility for the other person's behavior, but only...
DIED. Jacques Lacan, 80, controversial French psychoanalyst who in 1964 founded the Freudian School of Paris after being expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association for unorthodox practices (his sessions with patients were sometimes as brief as five or even three minutes); of an abdominal tumor; in Paris. Lacan, who last year dissolved the Freudian School on the ground that it had fallen into "deviations and compromises," maintained that adult psychic disorders often stemmed from the learning of language-and the repression of nonverbal ideas and urges-during childhood...
...this sounds like a highly unorthodox analysis, it is, because Zaleznik, 57, is a highly unorthodox consultant. He is not only Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management at Harvard Business School and a private consultant of 30 years' experience, but also a certified psychoanalyst, one of a very few in the U.S. who have made a specialty of using Freud's teachings and techniques to put corporate employees-and sometimes entire corporations-on the couch. "To me," he says, "an organization is a working coalition among executives that can be disturbed by hidden emotional factors, like...
Zaleznik was already an experienced teacher, consultant and author of three books when he decided in 1958 to become a psychoanalyst. "I was very taken with the notion of unconscious motivation," he says. "This was the only field addressing itself to the problem." Licensed to practice in 1968, he was certified in 1975 by the American Psychoanalytic Association, a rare distinction...