Throughout the year of 1995, a series of debates took place under the auspices of the Higher Education Network for Research and Information in Psychoanalysis. Leading Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts were brought together to debate key topics of psychanalytic theory. Subsequently, they were asked to submit their papers in written form and this book was compiled. The following areas were discussed: "phantasy", by Darien Leader and Robert M. Young; "child analysis" by Bice Benvenuto and Margaret Rustin; "transference and countertransference" by Robert Hinshelwood and Vincetn Palomera; "technique and interpretation" by Catalina Bronstein and Bernard Burgoyne; "sexuality" by Jane Temperley and Dany Nobus; "the unconscious" by Robin Anderson and Filip Geerardyn; The book ends with interviews with Donald Meltzer and Eric Laurent, each significant figures in the fields of Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysis respectively. Mary Sullivan provides an introduction setting out the similarities and divergences of the two psychoanalytic pradigms.

Bernard Burgoyne

Foreword , Introduction , Child Psychotherapy within the Kleinian Tradition , Once upon a Time: The Infant in Lacanian Theory 1 , Discussion of Papers on Child Psychoanalysis , Technique and Interpretation in Klein , Interpretation , Discussion of Papers on Interpretation , Phantasy and Psychotic Anxieties , Phantasy in Klein and Lacan , Klein's Views on Sexuality with Particular Reference to Female Sexuality , Theorising the Comedy of Sexes: Lacan on Sexuality , Discussion of Papers on Sexuality , Transference and Counter-Transference , On Counter-Transference , The Unconscious: A Kleinian Perspective , The Unconscious from a Lacanian Point of View , Discussion on the Unconscious , An Interview with Donald Meltzer 1 , Rethinking Kleinian Interpretation: What Difference Does It Make?