This book is concerned with an attempt to use language to capture/convey a sense of the delicate interplay of aliveness and deadness of human experience in the analytic setting represents a major challenge to contemporary psychoanalysis.

Ogden, Thomas

On the Art of Psychoanalysis -- Analyzing Forms of Aliveness and Deadness -- The Perverse Subject of Analysis -- Privacy, Reverie, and Analytic Technique -- Dream Associations -- Reverie and Interpretation -- On the Use of Language in Psychoanalysis -- Listening: Three Frost Poems