Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression

The empirical baseline of today’s psychoanalytic vernacular may be inferred from what psychoanalysts read. Contemporary information aggregation provides us with a unique moment in reading today’s psychoanalytic vernacular. The PEP Archive compiles data on journal articles analogous to radio stations’ hit parades of contemporary favorites. Defining Psychoanalysis: Achieving a Vernacular Expression provides a close reading of this contemporary assemblage, including three strong readings by Winnicott and two by Bion. It pursues the elements generated by these papers as an indication of contemporary psychoanalytic common sense , our consensual building blocks of theory and practice.