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The first English-language collection of work by Brazilian psychoanalyst Fabio Herrmann.

Widely published, studied, and taught in his home country, Brazilian psychoanalyst Fabio Herrmann (1944-2006) is little known outside the region-until now. What Is Psychoanalysis? makes available in English for the first time the complete text of his "short book" O Que E Psicanalise, originally published in 1983, revised, expanded, and republished in 1999, along with eight talks and articles from throughout his career. Together, they provide an indispensable overview of Herrmann's unique contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic method, his understanding of multiple unconsciouses in the plural, or fields, and an introduction to his idea of high theory. Countering a tendency to focus on the outcomes of psychoanalyses, the theories as end results, Herrmann addresses how those theories were created-that is, the interpretive process. With each patient or cultural object under study, Herrmann creates new analytic hypotheses, or prototheories, and encourages his readers to do the same so that Psychoanalysis, a term he always took care to capitalize when referring to the discipline itself, can someday fulfill its vocational horizon and evolve as a general science of the psyche.