This important book argues that apr-coup, a concept that has blossomed in French psychoanalytic discourse, not only allows an understanding of how repressed early memories determine adult life, and how human sexuality develops, but also allows for a richer and wider explanation of our mental structures and thinking.
The book outlines how apr-coup has been understood and defined by Freud, Lacan and other authors, considers it in diverse psychoanalytic cultures and explores its resonance in dream-work, sexual drives, thought, and the experience of trauma. Bernard Chervet considers that the totality of human thought can be approached according to the theory of apr-coup. It offers a metapsychological approach to the operation of apr-coup, bodily erogeneity and the regeneration of libido. Chervet''s compelling work argues that the phenomenon of apr-coup allowed for the development of the psychoanalytic theories of causality, sexuality, temporality, memory and trauma.
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