Windows

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"Windows supports dreams rather than concepts, encounters and poetic moments rather than painfully wrought insights... It is a beautiful little book, and one to read slowly. It suggests that in the activity of analysis there might yet be something that can be rescued, keeping the unconscious alive."-Times Literary Supplement Times Literary Supplement "Through Windows Pontalis continues his shrewd, subtle Freudian inquiries into what our sentences can sentence us to. Into the art of hearing things in what we don't want to hear. To avoid the woodenness of scientific formulation, and the arch stylishness of a too literary psychoanalysis, Pontalis has had to invent a new genre; a genre in which it is as though we can overhear someone wondering about something. And in the relishing and the tempering of his impressions-psychoanalytic and otherwise-we begin to discover what a generous skepticism might be like."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life and On Flirtation -- Adam Phillips "He may require little introduction, but nonetheless, we are provided with a very effective one in a fine translator's introduction ... I recommend that Windows not be read, but rather tasted and mulled-as one would a fine wine rather than a vin ordinaire... And I would add that one could make a case for the real benefit or value of these little essays by appreciating the extent to which the deeply personal musings of their author prompt or elicit a companion musing in the reader."-W.W. Meissner, S.J., The Psychoanalytic Quarterly -- W. W. Meissner, S.J. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly