Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Books
Duke University Press Illusions of a Future
Book SynopsisThis pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis focuses on Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, in order to examine the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its normalization, and now its "crisis."Trade Review“Schechter’s brilliant study combines ethnography and intellectual history to explore how psychoanalysis is practiced today…. Schechter poignantly illustrates arguments about precarity pioneered by scholars such as Judith Butler and Lauren Berlant. This book is required reading for humanists, social scientists, social workers, and therapists…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” -- D. Stuber * Choice *“Schechter’s text is an interdisciplinary feat that combines ethnography with archival research to chronicle the crisis of American psychoanalysis as it adapts to an industrialized, neoliberal health system, governed by insurability, standardization, ‘flexible specialization,’, and ‘medically necessary’ services. … Illusions of the Future is a remarkable contribution to the history and anthropology of the ‘psy’ sciences, and Schechter opens up a world of possibility for further ethnographically analyzing this discipline.” -- Julia Gruson-Wood * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *‘This book is a multifaceted gem. … Schechter helps us to understand traumatically induced change in the theory, organization, and practice of psychoanalysis in the U.S. Her book is implicitly a stinging critique of the harm managed care has done to analysts and patients alike.” -- Howard F. Stein * Journal of Anthropological Research *“For anybody interested in psychoanalysis, its institutions, history, theory, practices and personnel, this book makes a significant contribution that should have some (possibly even beneficial!) effects upon, and for, contemporary practitioners themselves. More generally, the book also contains incisive and interesting interpretations that bespeak the ongoing impact of biopolitical domination upon the mental health professions more generally — and should therefore also attract the attention of a wider audience.” -- Justin Clemens * Society & Space *"A keenly observed and elegantly written account . . . A sophisticated and nuanced ethnography." -- Silvia Posocco * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. The Slippery Object and the Sticky Libido 1. An Imaginary of Threat and Crisis 19 2. Analysis Deferred (or, the Talking Cure Talks Back) 51 Part II. The Problem of Psychoanalytic Authority 3. Instituting Psychoanalysis in Chicago: Two Pedagogies of Desire 73 4. Professionalization and Its Discontents: The Theory of Obedience and the Drama of "Never Splitting" 95 Part III. Psychoanalysis and the Declensions of Verisimilitude 5. The Plenty of Scarcity: On Crisis and Transience in the Fifty-First Ward 123 6. On Narcissism: "Our Own Developmental Line" 161 Notes 189 References 221 Index 267
£25.19
Fordham University Press The Claims of Literature
Book SynopsisShoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical legal studies. This title presents essays from Felman's oeuvre.Trade Review"The time is ripe for critical theory's re-encounter with Shoshana Felman's singularly creative thinking and reading. Felman's insistence on the implications of theory for literary and cultural reading over its mere "applications" remains a fundamental imperative that continues to press us today to rethink our assumptions and practices. This splendid collection brings together much of her most important work, as well as illuminating responses by Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, and Julia Kristeva, among others." -- -Kenneth Reinhard University of California, Los Angeles "Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most important and most influential thinkers of recent times. The essays selected for the reader are all widely viewed as "classics" and represent a coherent, well-chosen and thoughtful selection. All bear witness to the clarity of Felman's prose and her dedication to rigorous demonstration and lucid argumentation. Indeed, Felman's work derives its pathbreaking insights though its dedication to the clear expression of ideas and experiences that challenge the human capacity for clear expression. By engaging with this essential human paradox (the need to communicate that which defies communication), Felman's work addresses the most important questions of human experience and encourages her readers to open themselves up to new and exciting ways of thinking and reading." -- -Elissa Marder Emory University "The Claims of Literature gathers some of the true "specimen" texts of the last three decades, texts from which proceeded several of the major theoretical breakthroughs of our era. That each essay retains its full power to re-excite thought is testament to Felman's spectacular ability to locate those moments when an argument begins to fend or feed off its own foreignness. To read-or reread-these brilliant essays is to experience that thrilling brush with the unknown that first led Felman to reconceive the relations between writing and madness; the body and speech; femininity and sexual difference; law and justice; trauma and witnessing." -- -Joan Copjec author of Imagine There's No Woman or Director of the Center for the study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at University at Buffalo
£45.00
Fordham University Press Interstices of the Sublime
Book SynopsisThe sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. Through topics such as sublimation, schizophrenia, God, and creation ex nihilo, this book contributes to a form of radical theological thinking that is involved in the world.Trade Review"... [A] high quality and novel contribution." -Reviews in Religion and Theology "Draws on psychoanalytic theory and Continental philosophy to develop a radical postmodern theology." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Crockett's book is much more than an intervention into contemporary theological debates: it is an intervention that will change the very terms of these debates... It articulates a unique position that can only adequately be named Christian materialism. Crockett deploys the emancipatory core of Christianity that sustains every authentic radical politics." -- -Slavoj Zizek University of Ljubljana "An interesting topic, this book would be worth reading along with Twain's 'Autobiography,' Twain's final attempt to reveal his dark side." -Santa Cruz Sentinel
£27.90
Fordham University Press Derrida Visàvis Lacan
Book SynopsisDerrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure underpinning Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is a complex, paradoxical relationality that corresponds to Derrida's 'plural logic of the aporia'.Trade Review"An informative staging of an encounter between Derrida and Lacan ... intellectually joyful." -- -Michael Payne Bucknell University "Hurst brokers the relationship between Derrida and Lacan with great delicacy. Through patient, sympathetic, and often eye-opening readings of both, she maintains the separateness of these titans of French thought even as she draws them convincingly close together." -- -Joan Copjec The University at Buffalo, SUNY
£78.30
Fordham University Press Freud and Fundamentalism
Book SynopsisA work by the author of "Does Literature Think?" "Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era" and "Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece".Trade Review"The key contribution of the volume is to combat our fundamentalist tendencies in thinking about fundamentalism. The essays collected by Gourgouris throw the meanings of fundamentalism open and make of it a newly vital term for secular criticism. The debates this book engages are global and urgent, even though its key figure-Freud-is neither." -- -Eva Badowska Fordham University
£25.19
Fordham University Press Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis book examines informed consent to psychoanalysis. It reviews the law. It examines informed consent as a theoretical matter: e.g., is it possible, is it countertherapeutic? It reports on a survey of analysts. The goal is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept which has changed the delivery of healthcare.Trade Review"An important and well-designed study. Saks and Golshan have described a new, uncharted field of inquiry: how standards of 'informed consent' might bear on -- and matter within -- psychoanalytic treatment. Their book intelligently frames a variety of new practical questions." -- -Martin Stone Cardozo Law School "Professors Elyn Saks and Shahrokh Golshan have given us a fascinating and eye-opening account of the legal, theoretical, and empirical dimensions of informed consent to psychoanalysis." -- Anne Dailey, University of Connecticut School of Law -Journal of the American Psychoanalytical Association
£70.20
Fordham University Press The Ideology of Hatred
Book SynopsisThe book advances a new theoretical framework for understanding the politics of national hatred as a discourse which characterizes today's many national, ethnic and religious conflicts. It offers a critique of hatred as an ideological apparatus of power that operates within discourse as a defense strategy.Trade Review"Yanay's work on gender, violence, and relationality is critical and probing. The Ideology of Hatred contains discussions that are simply excellent: singular, disorientating, and original." -- -Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley "Yanay's reading of theoretical texts, coupled with her intimate understanding of political conflict, is startlingly new." -- -Noelle McAfee Emory University
£59.40
Fordham University Press The Ideology of Hatred
Book SynopsisThe book advances a new theoretical framework for understanding the politics of national hatred as a discourse which characterizes today's many national, ethnic and religious conflicts. It offers a critique of hatred as an ideological apparatus of power that operates within discourse as a defense strategy.Trade Review"Yanay's work on gender, violence, and relationality is critical and probing. The Ideology of Hatred contains discussions that are simply excellent: singular, disorientating, and original." -- -Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley "Yanay's reading of theoretical texts, coupled with her intimate understanding of political conflict, is startlingly new." -- -Noelle McAfee Emory University
£21.59
Fordham University Press The Right to Narcissism A Case for an Impossible
Book SynopsisThrough an engagement with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Derrida, this book argues for a rethinking of the concept of narcissism and aims to wrest it from its common and pejorative meanings, egoism and vanity, revealing the complexity and importance of this notion.Trade Review"A fascinating book... highly recommend." -Choice "Deftly working at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature, DeArmitt makes a fascinating case for self-love, or narcissism. With subtle and incisive readings of Rousseau, Kristeva and Derrida, DeArmitt shows the necessity for rethinking narcissism as an ethics of otherness." -- -Kelly Oliver Vanderbilt University "Pleshette DeArmitt's gem of a book, The Right to Narcissism, makes a cogent, timely, and well-crafted case in support of reclaiming the concept of narcissism from the pejorative meanings with which it has most commonly been associated for much of the modern era." -- -Elissa Marder Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Right to Narcissism? Part I. Rousseau: The Passions of Narcissus Introduction: Another Morality Tale? 1. Man's Double Birth 2. Regarding Self-Love Anew Part II. Kristeva: The Rebirth of Narcissus Introduction: Self-Love-Beyond Sin, Symptoms, and Sublime Values 3. Reconceiving Freud's Narcissus 4. Transference, or Amorous Dynamics Part III. Derrida: The Mourning of Narcissus Introduction: The Very Concept of Narcissism 5. The Eye of Narcissus 6. The Ear of Echo Afterword: By What Right? Notes Bibliography
£22.49
Fordham University Press Freud and the Scene of Trauma
Book SynopsisThis book describes the centrality of trauma to Freud’s thought, the moments of its apparent abandonment and later recurrences, from the seduction theory to the Death Drive. At these turning points Freud engages with the works of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Hoffmann and da Vinci as thought experiments in the imaginary space of literature and painting.Trade Review"Fletcher offers a distinctly original reformulation of a psychoanalytic account of fantasy and memory, focusing on its belated and non-mimetic dimensions. This account has far-reaching consequences for the status and ethical value of psychoanalysis within contemporary intellectual life... The chapters of this book are distinguished not only by their enormous theoretical power and precision, but by Fletcher's nearly uncanny ability to read both literary and theoretical texts with great powers of illumination and nuance. It is rare to find someone who combines his capacity for sustained and lucid abstract discussion with such a fine capacity for close textual reading." -- -Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley "There can be no doubt that this book will reward scholars across a number of disciplines: literary studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis and psychology, and philosophy" -Choice Magazine "This book is a gem. It is written on a number of levels: Freud's scholarship, literary scholarship, psychoanalytic scholarship, and psychology. It has depth and subtlety at the same time as providing a good read for a wide range of audiences. I recommend it wholeheartedly to students at all levels of seniority, including the most serious of scholars." -- -Peter Fonagy University College LondonTable of ContentsForeword Section I The Power of Scenes Prologue Freud's Scenographies Chapter 1 Charcot's Hysteria: Trauma and the Hysterical Attack Chapter 2 Freud's Hysteria: " Scenes of Passionate Movement" Section II Memorial Fantasies, Fantasmatic Memories Chapter 3 The Afterwardsness of Trauma and the Theory of Seduction Chapter 4 Memory and the Key of Fantasy Chapter 5 The Scenography of Trauma: Oedipus as Tragedy and Complex Section III Screen Memories and the Return of Seduction Chapter 6 Leonardo's Screen Memory Chapter 7 Flying and Painting: Leonardo's rival sublimations Section IV Protoypes and the Primal Chapter 8 The Transference and its Prototypes Chapter 9 The Wolf Man I: Constructing the Primal Scene Chapter 10 The Wolf Man II: Interpreting the Primal Scene Section V Trauma and the Compulsion to Repeat Chapter 11 Trauma and the Genealogy of the Death Drive Chapter 12 Uncanny Repetitions Freud, Hoffmann and the Death-Work Epilogue
£31.50
Fordham University Press War after Death On Violence and Its Limits
Book SynopsisReevaluates the role of war in politics and society based on an expanded definition of the violence that it entails, with special attention to the destruction of nonliving things such as dead bodies, cities, artworks, archives, or languages, and to extreme violence such as torture and rape.Trade Review"In the long tradition and ever growing sea of works that have linked 'language, literature, and war,' this is a strikingly original work that attends to the import of that phrase with exquisite responsibility." -- -Gil Anidjar Columbia University "Steven Miller's book War After Death is a truly impressive piece of critical writing. Indeed, this book is one of the most intellectually rich, trenchant and engaging works of criticism that I have read over the last decade." -- -Elissa Marder Emory UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction (i.e., the death drive) 1. Statues Also Die 2. Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet, War, and the Exact Measure of Man 3. Mayhem: Symbolic Violence and the Culture of the Death Drive 4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho 5. Translation of a System in Deconstruction: Derrida and the War of Language against Itself Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£63.00
Fordham University Press War after Death On Violence and Its Limits
Book SynopsisReevaluates the role of war in politics and society based on an expanded definition of the violence that it entails, with special attention to the destruction of nonliving things such as dead bodies, cities, artworks, archives, or languages, and to extreme violence such as torture and rape.Trade Review"In the long tradition and ever growing sea of works that have linked 'language, literature, and war,' this is a strikingly original work that attends to the import of that phrase with exquisite responsibility." -- -Gil Anidjar Columbia University "Steven Miller's book War After Death is a truly impressive piece of critical writing. Indeed, this book is one of the most intellectually rich, trenchant and engaging works of criticism that I have read over the last decade." -- -Elissa Marder Emory UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction (i.e., the death drive) 1. Statues Also Die 2. Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet, War, and the Exact Measure of Man 3. Mayhem: Symbolic Violence and the Culture of the Death Drive 4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho 5. Translation of a System in Deconstruction: Derrida and the War of Language against Itself Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£18.04
Fordham University Press Confidentiality and Its Discontents Dilemmas of
Book SynopsisConfidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy explores the human stories arising from the psychotherapist’s dual allegiance to patient and society. These dilemmas include the hazards of publishing a case study without the patient’s permission and the unexpected problems arising from the therapist functioning as a "double agent."Trade Review"Confidentiality and Its Discontents is an excellent account of confidentiality. It is a must-read for all clinicians, especially those who struggle with this issue as the actors in these stories did." -Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "Written by two of the leading individuals in the field, Confidentiality and Its Discontents is a clearly readable and well-argued account of the debates about confidentiality in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The book is extremely well presented and adds immeasurably to the literature on the topic." -- -Sander Gilman Emory University "Confidentiality and Its Discontents provides careful descriptions and discussions of a range of privacy cases that demonstrate the rapidly-escalating problems associated with the supposed confidentiality of the psychotherapeutic relationship. Confidentiality and Its Discontents will be a useful and unique resource to many mental health training programs." -- -Paul Brinich Clin. Prof. (Emeritus), Depts. of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. We Have Met the Enemy and He (Is) Was Us 2. The Buried Bodies Case: Lawyers Risk Their Careers to Defend Their Ethical Commitment to Client Privacy 3. The Case of Joseph Lifschutz: A Psychoanalyst in Jail 4. "The Angry Act": The Psychoanalyst's Breach of Confidentiality in Philip Roth's Life and Art 5. Angry Acts and Counteracts in Philip Roth's Life and Art 6. The Case of Jane Doe v. Joan Roe and Peter Poe: The Most Extensive Violation Ever of a Psychotherapy Patient's Privacy 7. The Anne Sexton Controversy: "There Is Nothing Like This in the History of Literary Biography" 8. The Tarasoff Case: Must the Protective Privilege End Where the Public Peril Begins? 9. Jaffee v. Redmond: The Supreme Court Speaks 10. The People v. Robert Bierenbaum: "Long-Ago Warnings Cannot Justify Abrogating the Privilege Covering Still Confidential Communications" 11. U. S. v. Sol Wachtler: "This Chief Judge Is Either Crazy or Criminal" Conclusion Works Cited Index
£28.80
Fordham University Press Chronicle of Separation On Deconstructions
Book SynopsisThe book Chronicle of Separation is an attempt to write on Derrida, to Derrida and from Derrida on the basis of a pathetic experience, which, in various ways, describes and enacts the pathetic experience of deconstruction itself. The book tackles the weight of emotions that is at the heart of deconstructive reading.Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Avital Ronell Preface 1. From Absolute Love to the Politics of Friendship 2. Let's Show Our (Post) Cards 3. Julia 4. And You Shall Eat and You Shall Be Satisfied and You Shall Be Released: Deconstruction as an Anorexic Perspective 5. The Book of Ruth Epilogue Appendix: The Biblical Book of Ruth Notes Bibliography Index
£19.79
Fordham University Press Ego Sum Corpus Anima Fabula
Book SynopsisEgo Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes’s philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes’s ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum.Trade Review"In this masterful study which lays out the groundwork for his later corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy examines the emergence of subjectivity as a philosophical event whose advent is decisively shaped by its discursive articulation. Taking to task the attempt to utter through one's mouth rather than merely think the givens of one's existence, he deftly captures the struggle of modern thought to re-envision its modes of being in the margins of philosophy and literature."--Dalia Judovitz, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsEgo Sum (Opening) Dum Scribo Larvatus pro Deo Mundus est fabula Unum quid
£78.30
Fordham University Press Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects Fractured
Book SynopsisDraws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.Trade Review"Lana Lin's Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects is at once searingly beautiful, analytically searching and technically clarifying. The case is cancer, the main object is the breast, and through Freud, Lorde, and Sedgwick Lin elaborates a 'subjectivity of survival.' She tells a story of how these authors died in their own fashion, processing the invasiveness and strange freedom of becoming an object in illness. She also sees their modes of identification, and her own, as a kind of reparative teaching in the middle of crisis. Lin's work with her authors, plus Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott, makes this book important for any scholar of affect and embodiment. But general readers of illness memoir will also find a richness of description that will allow them to feel held in the volatile, rich, and searching space illness can become." -- -Lauren Berlant George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at The University of ChicagoTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis and the Cancerous Object Psychoanalysis and Death Key Psychoanalytic Concepts Psychic Life of Objects Methodologies: Psychoanalysis and Pathography Overview of Chapters I PROSTHETIC OBJECTS: ON SIGMUND FREUD'S AMBIVALENT ATTACHMENTS The Prosthetic Contest Between Human and Nonhuman The Prosthetic Condition as Technological Predicament The Prosthetic as Psychic Object A Narcoanalysis of Freud's Illness Cancer as Not-Death His Living Prostheses II KEEN FOR THE FIRST OBJECT: A KLEINIAN READING OF AUDRE LORDE'S LIFE WRITING The Breast as Psychic Object The Breast as Political Object Objectification and Object Relations Orality: Creation and Destruction, Parts and Wholes The Breast as Fetish Object Mourning the Lost Object III OBJECT-LOVE IN THE LATER WRITINGS OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK A Public Discourse of Love Love as Comic Instruction Sedgwick's Forms of Love Object-Use, Object-Love Bad Pedagogy/Good Pedagogy "Let Another Finish the Poem ..." IV REPARATIVE OBJECTS IN THE FREUDIAN ARCHIVES The Museum as Creative Construction Remedy and Re-animation at the Freud Museum, London The Life and Death of Objects Melancholia and Reparation at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Fetishism of the Lost Object CONCLUSION: LAST OBJECTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£78.30
Fordham University Press Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Book SynopsisDraws on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna.Trade Review"Lana Lin's Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects is at once searingly beautiful, analytically searching and technically clarifying. The case is cancer, the main object is the breast, and through Freud, Lorde, and Sedgwick Lin elaborates a 'subjectivity of survival.' She tells a story of how these authors died in their own fashion, processing the invasiveness and strange freedom of becoming an object in illness. She also sees their modes of identification, and her own, as a kind of reparative teaching in the middle of crisis. Lin's work with her authors, plus Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott, makes this book important for any scholar of affect and embodiment. But general readers of illness memoir will also find a richness of description that will allow them to feel held in the volatile, rich, and searching space illness can become." -- -Lauren Berlant George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at The University of ChicagoTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis and the Cancerous Object Psychoanalysis and Death Key Psychoanalytic Concepts Psychic Life of Objects Methodologies: Psychoanalysis and Pathography Overview of Chapters I PROSTHETIC OBJECTS: ON SIGMUND FREUD'S AMBIVALENT ATTACHMENTS The Prosthetic Contest Between Human and Nonhuman The Prosthetic Condition as Technological Predicament The Prosthetic as Psychic Object A Narcoanalysis of Freud's Illness Cancer as Not-Death His Living Prostheses II KEEN FOR THE FIRST OBJECT: A KLEINIAN READING OF AUDRE LORDE'S LIFE WRITING The Breast as Psychic Object The Breast as Political Object Objectification and Object Relations Orality: Creation and Destruction, Parts and Wholes The Breast as Fetish Object Mourning the Lost Object III OBJECT-LOVE IN THE LATER WRITINGS OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK A Public Discourse of Love Love as Comic Instruction Sedgwick's Forms of Love Object-Use, Object-Love Bad Pedagogy/Good Pedagogy "Let Another Finish the Poem ..." IV REPARATIVE OBJECTS IN THE FREUDIAN ARCHIVES The Museum as Creative Construction Remedy and Re-animation at the Freud Museum, London The Life and Death of Objects Melancholia and Reparation at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Fetishism of the Lost Object CONCLUSION: LAST OBJECTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£23.39
Fordham University Press Freud and Monotheism
Book SynopsisOver the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis''s relation to society has emerged, allowing Freud's account of the interdependence of religion, ethics, and violence to gain currency in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role of Freud's masterpiece, Moses and Monotheism, is widely recognized. Freud and Monotheism critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud and Moses, taking as its entry point Freud's relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Highlighting the broad impact of Moses and Monotheism across the humanities, contributors from philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and Egyptology come together to illuminate Freud's book and the modern world with whichTable of ContentsIntroduction Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit “Why [the Jews] have Attracted this Undying Hatred” Richard Bernstein “Geistigkeit”: A Problematic Concept Joel Whitebook Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History Willi Goetschel Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging Gabriele Schwab A Leap of Faith into Moses: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention Yael Segalovitz Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses Jan Assmann Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea Ronald Hendel Is Psychic Phylogenesis only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance Catherine Malabou Moses and the Burning Bush: Leadership and Potentiality in the Bible Gilad Sharvit Notes List of Contributors Index
£71.10
Fordham University Press Trauma and Transcendence Suffering and the
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers scholars in philosophy, psychology, religion, and sociology variety of disciplines to meet the challenge of how to think trauma and transcendence inlight of the interdisciplinary character of the field of Trauma Studies and its splintering across the multiple theoretical approaches.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Limits of Theory in Trauma and Transcendence Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto Constructive Phenomenologies of Trauma 1. Two Trauma Communities: A Philosophical Archaeology of Cultural and Clinical Trauma Theories Vincenzo Di Nicola 2. Phenomenological-Contextualism All the Way Down: An Existential and Ethical Perspective on Emotional Trauma Robert D. Stolorow 3. Traumatized by Transcendence: My Other’s Keeper Donna Orange 4. Evil, Trauma, and the Building of Absences Eric Boynton 5. The Unsettling of Perception: Levinas and the Anarchic Trauma Eric Severson Social and Political Analyses of Traumatic Experience 6. The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière’s Critique of Lyotard Tina Chanter 7. Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary George Yancy 8. Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt: My Lai Ronald Eyerman 9. The Psychic Economy and Fetishization of Traumatic Lived Experience Peter Capretto Theological Aporia in the Aftermath of Trauma 10. Theopoetics of Trauma Shelly Rambo 11. Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake Marcia Mount Shoop 12. Trauma and Theology: Prospects and Limits in Light of the Cross Hilary Jerome Scarsella Prospects 13. Prospects of Trauma for the Philosophy of Religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein Notes Bibliography Index
£102.60
Fordham University Press For the Love of Psychoanalysis The Play of
Book SynopsisThis book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida (“Freuderrida”), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works Cited | ix Introduction: Freuderrida | 1 Part I Freuderrida 1. Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (Foreign Bodies I) | 9 2. Traumatic Temporalities: Freud’s Other Legacy | 24 3. Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident? | 35 4. What Are the Chances? Psychoanalysis and Telepathy (Foreign Bodies II) | 47 5. The Speculative Turn: Plato’s Place in the Theory of the Drives | 68 Part II Freuderrida 6. For the Love of Psychoanalysis: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis | 101 7. Cruelty and Its Vicissitudes | 120 8. The “Question” of the Death Penalty | 139 9. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution | 151 Appendixes Crib Notes A. What Is at Play in Play? Derrida’s Fort/Da with Freud’s Fort/Da | 179 B. Devouring Figures: Little Red Riding Hood and the Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida | 190 Acknowledgements | 199 Notes | 201 Index | 243
£29.45
Fordham University Press For the Love of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight, in their coupling of Freud and Derrida (“Freuderrida”), the accidents both in and of psychoanalytic writing, and the philosophical question of what limits the openness of our horizon.Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works Cited | ix Introduction: Freuderrida | 1 Part I Freuderrida 1. Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (Foreign Bodies I) | 9 2. Traumatic Temporalities: Freud’s Other Legacy | 24 3. Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident? | 35 4. What Are the Chances? Psychoanalysis and Telepathy (Foreign Bodies II) | 47 5. The Speculative Turn: Plato’s Place in the Theory of the Drives | 68 Part II Freuderrida 6. For the Love of Psychoanalysis: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis | 101 7. Cruelty and Its Vicissitudes | 120 8. The “Question” of the Death Penalty | 139 9. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution | 151 Appendixes Crib Notes A. What Is at Play in Play? Derrida’s Fort/Da with Freud’s Fort/Da | 179 B. Devouring Figures: Little Red Riding Hood and the Final Seminars of Jacques Derrida | 190 Acknowledgements | 199 Notes | 201 Index | 243
£92.70
Fordham University Press Dynamis of Healing
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Psyche and Creation: Initial Reflections on Orthodox Theology and Depth Psychology | 19 2 “That Which Is Not Assumed Is Not Healed” | 40 3 An Ontology of Healing? | 78 4 Eros: Healing Fire | 105 Conclusion | 149 Acknowledgments | 155 Notes | 157 Bibliography | 201 Index | 211
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Fordham University Press In Praise of Risk
Book SynopsisThis book, whose original French edition achieved worldwide attention when its author died trying to save two children caught in a riptide, challenges the psychic work the modern world devotes to avoiding risk. Weaving psychoanalytic case studies together with philosophical reflections, Dufourmantelle shows how risk is an essential property of life, one that requires our embrace.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Introduction: The Risk of Reading | ix To Risk One’s Life | 1 Eurydice Saved | 4 Minuscule Magical Dependencies | 8 Voluntary Servitude and Disobedience | 11 In Suspense | 13 At the Risk of Passion | 17 Leaving the Family | 22 Forgetting, Anamnesis, Deliverance | 24 Incurable (In)fidelities | 29 Zero Risk? | 33 How (Not) to Become Oneself . . . | 36 Being in Secret | 39 Befriending Our Fears | 41 At the Risk of Being Sad | 46 At the Risk of Being Free | 49 The Time They Call Lost | 52 Dead Alive | 55 Of a Perception Infinitely Vaster . . . | 59 Anxiety, Lack—Spiritual Hunger? | 63 Farewell Magic World: Beyond Disappointment | 67 Life—Mine, Yours | 70 At the Risk of the Unknown | 72 At the Risk of Being Carnal | 74 May There Be an End to Our Torment . . . | 79 Breaking Up | 82 At the Risk of Speech | 86 Solitudes | 89 Laughter, Dreaming—Beyond the Impasse | 93 Hope No More | 101 Once Upon a Time, the “Athenaeum” . . . or, Why Risk Romanticism? | 106 Risking Belief | 111 Risking Variation | 114 The Event: Hyperpresence | 119 Intimate Prophecy | 122 At the Risk of Bedazzlement | 127 Desire, Body, Writing | 130 Healing? | 139 An Other Language | 142 Risking Scandal | 145 Taking the Risk of Childhood | 148 Assiduity | 151 Risking the Future | 154 At the Risk of Beauty | 158 At the Risk of Spirit | 162 Risking the Universal? | 164 Hauntings | 167 Spirals, Ellipses, Metaphors, Anamorphoses | 170 Envisaging Night | 173 Revolutions | 176 At the Risk of Going Through Hell (Eurydice) | 180 Notes | 187
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Fordham University Press Jacques the Sophist Lacan Logos and
Book SynopsisSophistry has long been philosophy’s bad other, yet in many ways, its emphasis on words and performativity remain more important than philosophical Truth. This book celebrates an underground survival of the sophistical tradition in the work of work of psychoanalysis, and its determination to take seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation.Table of ContentsPrologue: “How Kind of You to Recognize Me” | 1 1. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves | 5 2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time | 23 3. Logos-Pharmakon | 39 4. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan’s Anti-Aristotelianism | 59 5. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan’s Ab-Aristotelianism | 93 Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish | 127 Acknowledgments | 133 Translator’s Note: Performing Untranslatability | 135 Notes | 141 Index | 171
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Fordham University Press Jacques the Sophist Lacan Logos and
Book SynopsisSophistry has long been philosophy’s bad other, yet in many ways, its emphasis on words and performativity remain more important than philosophical Truth. This book celebrates an underground survival of the sophistical tradition in the work of work of psychoanalysis, and its determination to take seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation.Table of ContentsPrologue: “How Kind of You to Recognize Me” | 1 1. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves | 5 2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time | 23 3. Logos-Pharmakon | 39 4. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan’s Anti-Aristotelianism | 59 5. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan’s Ab-Aristotelianism | 93 Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish | 127 Acknowledgments | 133 Translator’s Note: Performing Untranslatability | 135 Notes | 141 Index | 171
£85.50
Fordham University Press In Defense of Secrets
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreamble | ix I. Memories of the Secret Origins | 3 In the Crypt | 6 Etymology | 8 When the Secret Appears | 10 Occult Force | 14 II. The Secret’s Passions Lifting the Veil | 19 The Unavowable | 22 A Treasure, a Poison | 25 Genesis | 27 Storia I | 29 III. Being or Having The Last Secret | 39 The Body au secret | 41 Eroticism | 44 Storia II | 47 Storia III | 53 IV. Transparency and Truth Violations | 59 Dissimulations | 63 Surveillances | 65 Adaptations | 67 Mirages | 69 Big Data, Hyperconnection, Speed: The Spiral | 72 Archives | 74 Secret Societies | 77 The Unifying Secret | 81 V. An Ethics of the Secret Panopticum: Bentham, Kant, Constant | 85 Inappropriable | 88 Creative Power | 90 The Secret of Dreams | 92 Sex and Prayer | 95 Secret Sideration | 97 Jealousies | 102 The Conspiracy Theory | 105 VI. Toward Mystery Secret Nature | 109 Veils | 111 Legacies | 114 Aside | 117 A Part of One’s Own | 123 Secret of the Prophetic Voice | 125 Sacrifice | 129 Mystery’s Share | 133 Notes | 139 Bibliography | 141
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Fordham University Press From Life to Survival Derrida Freud and the
Book SynopsisThe book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction | 1 1 From Grammatology to Life Death | 11 2 Interrogating the Death Drive | 35 3 Survival as Autoimmunity | 68 4 Mortality and Normativity | 97 5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty | 127 Acknowledgments | 155 Notes | 157 Bibliography | 185 Index | 195
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychodynamic Formulation
Book SynopsisHow do our patients come to be the way they are? What forces shape their conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings? How can we use this information to best help them? This book offers students and practitioners from all fields of mental health a clear, practical, operationalized method for constructing psychodynamic formulations.Trade Review“This informative, thoughtfully organized, Cleary written book addresses a central topic that is being ever more exiled into the shadows of psychiatric knowledge and practice.” (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1 December 2014) "This is the best book I have read on psychodynamic formulation. Clearly written, with a warm, conversational style and numerous clinical examples, this book shows the reader how centrally important a psychodynamic formulation is to understanding the patient and guiding the treatment—not just in psychotherapy—but in all clinical settings. The authors systematically guide the reader in developing skills and building knowledge to construct a psychodynamic formulation and thinking deeply about patients. It is the most comprehensive and accessible learning guide on psychodynamic formulation to date!" (Debra Katz,Vice Chair for Education at the University of Kentucky and Director of Psychiatry Residency Training, USA) “This highly anticipated companion text to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Clinical Manual provides a sophisticated yet easily understandable approach to developing psychodynamic formulations, one of the most challenging and important aspects of learning psychodynamic psychotherapy. Cabaniss and her coauthors understand how to present the complex world of psychodynamic psychotherapy and formulation in a way that beginning students can grasp and apply to their clinical work with patients. The system of developing formulations (Describe-Review-Link) provides focus, clarity and the flexibility to create meaningful ways of understanding our patients that will be of great benefit to both beginners and skilled clinicians. This book is a great advance in the way to approach developing the formulations that are the bedrock of well conceived treatment.” (David A. Goldberg, M.D California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, USA)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction xi PART ONE Introduction to the Psychodynamic Formulation 1 1 What is a Psychodynamic Formulation? 3 2 How do We Use Psychodynamic Formulations? 8 3 How do We Construct a Psychodynamic Formulation? 12 PART TWO DESCRIBE 17 4 Self 23 5 Relationships 32 6 Adapting 41 7 Cognition 52 8 Work and Play 61 Putting it Together – A Description of Problems and Patterns 69 PART THREE REVIEW 75 9 What We’re Born with – Genetics and Prenatal Development 81 10 The Earliest Years 90 11 Middle Childhood 101 12 Later Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood 113 Putting it Together – A Developmental History 123 PART FOUR LINK 135 13 Trauma 143 14 Early Cognitive and Emotional Difficulties 152 15 Conflict and Defense 163 16 Relationships with Others 173 17 The Development of the Self 182 18 Attachment 191 Putting it Together–A Psychodynamic Formulation 201 PART FIVE Psychodynamic Formulations in Clinical Practice 213 19 Psychodynamic Formulations in Acute Care Settings 215 20 Psychodynamic Formulation in Pharmacologic Treatment 222 21 Psychodynamic Formulation in Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Revising Over Time 230 22 Sharing Formulations with Our Patients 238 Epilogue 247 Appendix – How to Use Psychodynamic Formulation: A Guide for Educators 249 Recommended Reading 253 Index 259
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychoanalysis and the Image
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock. Trade Review"With greater clarity than ever, this book articulates the relevance of psychoanalysis for art historical interpretation. The result is a work that must necessarily figure in method and theory courses from now on." Keith Moxey, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributers. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. The Image in Psychoanalysis and the Archaeological Metaphor. (Griselda Pollock). 2. Dreaming Art. (Mieke Bal). 3. Fascinance and the Girl-to-m/Other Matrixial Feminine Difference. (Brache L. Ettinger). 4. Melancholia and Cezanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror. (Young-Paik Chun). 5. Yayoi Kusama between Abstraction and Pathology. (Izumi Nakajime). 6. Diaspora without Resistance? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Law of Genre. (Karyne Ball). 7. Fragment(s) of an Analysis: Chantal Akerman's News from Home (or a Mother-Daughter Tale of Two Cities). (Adriana Cerne). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Psychoanalysis and the Image
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations Advances theoretical debates in art history while offering substantive analyses of significant bodies of twentieth century art Edited by internationally renowned art historian Griselda Pollock. Trade Review"With greater clarity than ever, this book articulates the relevance of psychoanalysis for art historical interpretation. The result is a work that must necessarily figure in method and theory courses from now on." Keith Moxey, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures. Notes on Contributers. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. The Image in Psychoanalysis and the Archaeological Metaphor. (Griselda Pollock). 2. Dreaming Art. (Mieke Bal). 3. Fascinance and the Girl-to-m/Other Matrixial Feminine Difference. (Brache L. Ettinger). 4. Melancholia and Cezanne's Portraits: Faces beyond the Mirror. (Young-Paik Chun). 5. Yayoi Kusama between Abstraction and Pathology. (Izumi Nakajime). 6. Diaspora without Resistance? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Law of Genre. (Karyne Ball). 7. Fragment(s) of an Analysis: Chantal Akerman's News from Home (or a Mother-Daughter Tale of Two Cities). (Adriana Cerne). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis Literature
Book SynopsisThis concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film. Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: Psychoanalysis at the Margins 1 Laura Marcus Part I Histories 13 1 The Freudian Century 15 Stephen Frosh 2 The Case Study 34 Andrew Webber 3 Modernity, the Occult, and Psychoanalysis 49 Carolyn Burdett 4 Back to Frankfurt School 66 Laurence A. Rickels 5 The Exception of Psychoanalysis: Adorno and Cavell as Readers of Freud 82 Daniel Steuer Part II Literatures 103 6 Freud’s Textual Couch, or the Ambassador’s Magic Carpet 105 Jean-Michel Rabaté 7 Freud’s Double 122 Nicholas Royle 8 Medieval Dreams 137 Nicolette Zeeman 9 Queer Desire, Psychoanalytic Hermeneutics, and Love Lyric 151 Tim Dean 10 Psychoanalysis, Literature, and the “Case” of Adolescence 167 Pamela Thurschwell Part III Visual Cultures 191 11 Intimate Volver 193 Frances L. Restuccia 12 Psychoanalysis, Popular and Unpopular 216 Catherine Liu 13 Primetime Psychoanalysis 233 Ankhi Mukherjee 14 The Art of the Symptom: Body, Writing, and Sex Change 250 Patricia Gherovici 15 The Desert of the Real 271 Todd McGowan Part IV Transformations 287 16 “One of the Most Obscure Regions of Psychoanalysis”: Defamiliarizing Psychic Economy 289 Anna Kornbluh 17 Chronolibido: From Socrates to Lacan and Beyond 312 Martin Hägglund 18 Psychoanalytic Animal 328 Maud Ellmann 19 On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream 351 Ranjana Khanna 20 Freud on Cultural Translation 367 Robert J.C. Young 21 Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy: Narratives of Teaching 385 Isobel Armstrong 22 Touching and Not Touching 410 Naomi Segal Index 425
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American Psychological Association Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic
Book SynopsisRelational psychodynamic psychotherapy arose in reaction to hierarchical, doctor-patient aspects of Freudian psychoanalysis. It emphasizes instead the partnership between therapist and client, and focuses on the power dynamics involved in this inherently unequal relationship. In this book, Joan E. Sarnat describes a model of clinical supervision that is based upon this therapeutic approach. While some clinicians treat the supervisory relationship as entirely distinct from the supervised therapy, Sarnat presents a straightforward and ethical framework within which a supervisor uses his or her clinical skills to work in the supervisory relationship, helping supervisees navigate their emotional responses to clients. Clear, concise chapters cover the theoretical and empirical basis for a relational model of supervision, and offer specific recommendations for addressing typical problems encountered by beginning, intermediate, and advanced supervisees. The book also includes revealing tTrade Review“Psychodynamic psychologists—especially those supervising trainees who are also working psychodynamically—will find Sarnat’s Supervision Essentials for Psychodynamic Psychotherapies to be a useful guide to developing or refining a more relational approach to their supervision.” —PsycCRITIQUES®Table of ContentsForeword to the Clinical Supervision Essentials Series Acknowledgments Introduction Essential Dimensions Evidence for the Effectiveness of a Relational Model of Psychodynamic Supervision Supervisory Methods and Techniques Illustration: An Excerpt From a Transcript of a Supervisory Hour Common Supervisory Issues, Part I: Working With Supervisee "Difficulties" Common Supervisory Issues, Part II: Working With Difference Common Supervisory Issues, Part III: Working With Legal and Ethical Issues Future Directions Appendix References Index About the Author
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American Psychological Association Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in
Book Synopsis While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social class, the literature lacks a set of core principles to inform and support culturally competent practice. This approachable volume, now available in paperback,responds to that pressing need. Drawing on the contributions of psychoanalytic scholars as well as multicultural and feminist psychologists, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra presents a theoretical framework that reflects the realities of clients’ lives and addresses the complex sociocultural issues that influence their psychological health. Psychoanalytic theory proves to be particularly valuable in exploring unconscious processes, recurrent themes, and transference and counter-transference. In examining these questions, the author provides engaging case illustrations from her own clinical practice, as well as findings from her research with youth ofTrade Review“Tummala-Narra has gathered our dispersed ideas in psychoanalytic thinking about difference and expertly fashioned an important and clinically astute framework. Her ideas are rich and generative. Reading her book was invigorating and challenging, like a consult with a wise and trusted colleague.” — PsycCRITIQUES®Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Historical Overview and Critique of the Psychoanalytic Approach to Culture and Context Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Understanding of Diversity Cultural Competence From a Psychoanalytic Perspective Attending to Indigenous Narrative Considering the Role of Language and Affect Addressing Social Oppression and Traumatic Stress Recognizing the Complexity of Cultural Identifications Expanding Self-Examination: Cultural Context in the Life and Work of the Therapist Implications of a Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Perspective: Some Thoughts on Future Directions References Index About the Author
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Duke University Press Racial Melancholia Racial Dissociation
Book SynopsisIn Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study Trade Review"Intentionally answering the call for interdisciplinary scholarship, this innovative work will be valuable for clinicians as well as scholars of race. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- J. deGuzman * Choice *"One of the most striking aspects of Eng and Han’s book is the relative ease with which it toggles back and forth between psychoanalytic case studies of people in various stages of suffering and characters in novels who were created to embody themes of beauty and triumph, suffering and fracture. . . . There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of, with endings that we write ourselves." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation is an excellent resource for any scholar thinking about race and psychoanalysis and, specifically, who are thinking critically about the use of psychoanalytic paradigms like mourning, loss, melancholia, infantile development, reparation, or transitional objects in relation to questions of the lived experiences of racial oppression." -- Christopher Bennett * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *"Eng and Han—a literature professor and a psychotherapist, respectively—demonstrate how to understand the entanglements of history, culture, and psychoanalysis for Asian Americans. . . . This is an unusual social justice project, for it imagines a collective politics that is grounded in the intimate—and highly individualized—work of therapeutic repair." -- Amy R. Wong * Public Books *“Eng and Han’s work provides a critical vocabulary for articulating the slippery and insidious ways multicultural violence operates in the contemporary era.... Eng and Han contribute an invaluable perspective on Asian Americans’ racial and psychic processes that will be of interest to scholars across disciplines....” -- Corinne Mitsuye Sugino * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: The History of the (Racial) Subject and the Subject of (Racial) History 1 Part I: Racial Melancholia 1. Racial Melancholia: Model Minorities, Depression, and Suicide 33 2. Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and Racial Transnational Objects 66 Part II. Racial Dissociation 3. Racial Dissociation: Parachute Children and Psychic Nowhere 101 4. (Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age 141 Epilogue 174 Notes 181 Bibliography 203 Index 213
£72.25
Duke University Press Genres of Listening
Book SynopsisXochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires.Trade Review"Marsilli-Vargas’s book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound." -- Chris Batterman Cháirez * Sound Studies *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A City of Listeners 1 1. For a Theory of Genres of Listening 25 2. The Music in the Words 48 3. “What You Really Mean Is . . .”: Listening to “That Which Is Not Said” 80 4. The Psychoanalytic Field in Buenos Aires 106 5. The Mass Mediation of Psychoanalytic Listening 137 Conclusion: Final Resonances 174 Notes 185 References 203 Index 223
£70.55
Duke University Press Psychoanalysis and History
Book SynopsisThe relationship between history and psychoanalysis has long been contentious, starting with Freud's ambivalence toward history, with some declaring the two fields to be largely incommensurable. The contributors to this special issue rethink this complicated dynamic, demonstrating both the uses of psychoanalysis for interrogating historical narratives and the importance of history for psychoanalytic analysis. Essays address how psychoanalysis reframes the ways historians have represented the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, investigate neoliberal group psychology by studying the emergence of QAnon, trace the political trajectories of psychoanalysis in the mid-twentieth century, and find previously unexplored links between Freud and the US plantation economy. Together, the essays testify to the importance of considering the unconscious dimensions of thought when attempting to understand the workings of politics and representations of the past. Contributors. Max C
£11.39
Duke University Press Genres of Listening
Book SynopsisXochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires.Trade Review"Marsilli-Vargas’s book is an exemplary ethnography, weaving together rich empirical materials with a deeply contextualised case-study to develop novel theoretical insights on a topic of central concern to Sound Studies. . . . Marsilli-Vargas develops important conceptual tools for a nuanced understanding of listening while making a significant contribution to fields such cultural history, Latin American Studies, and the anthropology of sound." -- Chris Batterman Cháirez * Sound Studies *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A City of Listeners 1 1. For a Theory of Genres of Listening 25 2. The Music in the Words 48 3. “What You Really Mean Is . . .”: Listening to “That Which Is Not Said” 80 4. The Psychoanalytic Field in Buenos Aires 106 5. The Mass Mediation of Psychoanalytic Listening 137 Conclusion: Final Resonances 174 Notes 185 References 203 Index 223
£18.99
University of Toronto Press Secular Nations under New Gods
Book SynopsisEver since Max Weber's study of the role Protestantism played in our civilization, the role of Christianity in our world has been much debated. This work is addressed to those interested in a return to the Biblical message as opposed to what institutionalized Christianity has made of it.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction A Secular Way of Life in Search of Spirituality? Where Are We and What Have We Done? Seeing and Listening People of a Time, Place, and Culture People of a Time, Place, and Universal Technical Order People of the Word 1 The Possibility and Impossibility of Living a Secular Life How Secular Have We Become? Language, Swearing, and the Sacred A Creation for Freedom without a Sacred A Creation for Love without Eros 2 The Roots of a Non-secular Life: Religion and Morality as Symptoms of Evil Uprooting and Re-rooting the Creation’s Fabric of Relationships The End of Secular Human Life God's Covenant and Humanity's Life Support The Beginning of Human History A New Beginning without God 3 Language, Myth, and History Making a Name The Word, Human Words, and Cultures Socially and Historically Naming Ourselves Culture and Revelation The Subversion of Symbolization 4 Born Neither Free nor Equal, but Loved An Enslaved Humanity The Flesh and the World A World Ruled by Principalities and Powers The Demonic Powers The Satanic Powers Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse The City as the Seat of the Powers 5 The Law, the Spirit, and the Kingdom of Heaven The Law and the Jewish People The Law of Freedom The Spirit The Kingdom of Heaven 6 Christianity in the Grip of Vanity and Chasing after the Wind Why Give the Last Word to Qohelet? Vanity and Myths Wisdom and Myths God and Our Myths Epilogue Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press The Smaller Infinity
Book SynopsisThe concepts of the Jungian theory of personality have long held considerable interest for Robertson Davies, both outside his fiction and as the explicit subject of The Manticore. This interpretive study discusses Davies' use of Jungian psychology as both a structural and a thematic device and touches on related themes of illusion and the nature of reality.Drawing extensively on early reviews and articles, Monk sketches the background to Davies' preoccupation with psychology, revealing its influence on his early writings, including the effect of the Jungian concept of the persona on Shakespeare's Boy Actors and the ocncept of the shadow on the Samuel Marchbanks material. She also notes the introduction of the important themes of illusion, as a mask for reality, and ambivalence which are extended in the Salterton trilogy, Fifth Business, and The Manticore. Monk concludes that World of Wonders reveals an apparent but unsuccessful attempt on Davies' part to get away from Jungi
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MY - University of Toronto Press From Philosophy to Psychotherapy A
Book SynopsisPresenting a highly innovative exploration of the relationship between philosophical and psychological issues, Edwin L. Hersch argues that psychological theories and practices inescapably rest upon a series of philosophical positions – whether they are acknowledged and reflected upon or not. To examine this proposition Hersch develops his Hierarchy of Levels of Theoretical or Philosophical Inquiry Method, which involves the systematic consideration of a series of philosophical questions pertaining to the ontological, general epistemological, field-specific epistemological, and psychological stances adopted (either explicitly or implicitly) by any particular psychological theory. By using this hierarchical framework the book then attempts to develop a new approach to psychological theory and psychotherapeutic practice based largely on the premises of phenomenological philosophy.The scope of the book cuts across a variety of theoretical and professional disciplina
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University of Nebraska Press Psychoanalysis and the GlObal
Book Synopsis Psychoanalysis and the GlObal is about the hole at the heart of the “glObal,” meaning the instability and indecipherability that lies at the hub of globalization. The contributors use psychoanalysis to expose the unconscious desires, excesses, and antagonisms that accompany the world of economic flows, cultural circulation, and sociopolitical change. Unlike the mainstream discourse of globalization, which most often assumes unencumbered movement across borders, these contributors uncover what Lacan calls “the Real” of the glObal—its rifts, gaps, exceptions, and contradictions.Psychoanalysis and the GlObaladopts a psychoanalytic lens to highlight the unconscious circuits of enjoyment, racism, and anxiety that trouble, if not undermine, globalization’s economic, cultural, and environmental goals or gains.The contributors interrogate how unconscious desires and drives are externalized in our incTrade Review"For any geographer interested in the potential usefulness of political psychoanalysis in geography, this book is ‘the (Real) Thing’. This anthology proves not only that the theories are compatible, but they can also be fused in a lot of different creative ways, opening up a rather undiscovered realm of experimental studies in social studies overall."—Erik Hansson, Social and Cultural Geography"What I find fascinating about Kapoor’s book is the extent to which Lacan’s work provides new lines of argument and perspectives for the numerous discussions of globalization. . . . Even for the uninitiated, this book provides worthwhile insights into a theoretical lens such as Lacan’s."—Vivi Djaja, Canadian Geographer"[This] book differs from many edited volumes I have read in certain commendable ways. It is full of small bursts of insight, compelling examples and citations, and novel information and perspectives. . . . The book and its contributors are deeply engaging, even energizing."—Daniel Sullivan, Kritikon Litterarum“Psychoanalysis and the GlObal brilliantly confirms Jacques Lacan’s thesis that the unconscious is political. It not merely applies psychoanalysis to global economic and political movements; it reveals how the unconscious itself is already traversed by social and political antagonisms. For this reason alone, this edited volume by Ilan Kapoor is obligatory reading, not only for those who want to penetrate the dark underside of our social life but also for those who want to bring out the economic and political mediation of our most intimate traumas.”—Slavoj Žižek, senior researcher, Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia“This collection demonstrates the fecundity of thinking spatially through psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytically through space. Neither psychoanalysis nor geography will be the same. Entering these pages, readers find a world upside-down, where consciousness dissolves into its dirty, multifarious, and unconscious splendor, providing us with analytical and practical means for imagining a world beyond ‘the end of the Anthropocene.’”—Heidi J. Nast, professor in the International Studies Program at DePaul University“There is no more pressing time to be using psychoanalytic theory than now, and this book demonstrates the urgency of this task almost with every turn of the page. It is a pathbreaking —‘next generation’—analysis, revealing the power of psychoanalytic geographies in addressing key global challenges.”—Steve Pile, professor of human geography at the Open UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Chapter Summaries Acknowledgments Introduction Ilan Kapoor Part 1. Libidinal Economy and Political Economy 1. Faith, Fantasy, and Crisis: Racialized Financial Discipline in Europe Dan Bousfield 2. The Logic of Humiliation in Financial Conquest Maureen Sioh 3. Beyond the End of the World: Breaking Attachment to a Dying Planet Robert Fletcher 4. Integrative and Responsive Desires: Resources for an Alternative Political Economy Eleanor MacDonald Part 2. Cultural Anxieties 5. “I Love Death”: War in Syria and the Anxiety of the Other Anna J. Secor 6. Empowering Women: A Symptom of Development? Chizu Sato 7. Architectural Enjoyment: Lefebvre and Lacan Lucas Pohl 8. Anamorphosis of Capital: Black Holes, Gothic Monsters, and the Will of God Japhy Wilson Part 3. The GlObal in the Local: Desire, Resistance, and the City 9. A Feminist Psychoanalytic Perspective on Glass Architecture in Singapore Nathan F. Bullock 10. City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size Fetish Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn and Rubia R. Valente 11. Corruption, Left Castration, and the Decay of an Urban Popular Movement in Brazil: A Melancholy Story 000 Pieter de Vries 12. The Pervert versus the Hysteric: Politics at Tahrir Square Ilan Kapoor Epilogue: Affect and the GlObal Rise of Populism Ilan Kapoor Contributors Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar
Book SynopsisQuintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle.Can psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about “what love really is”?In this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can. Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions – from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism – and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan’s paradoxical claim that “love is giving what you don’t have.” He shows how the emptiness or lack we feel within ourselves gets covered over or entwined in love, and how it is possible and indeed vital to give something to another that we feel we ourselves don’t have.This first-ever commentary on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference, provides readers with a clear and systematic introduction to Lacan’s views on love. It will be of great value to students and scholars of psychology and of the humanities generally, and to analysts of all persuasions.Trade Review"Lacan on Love is not only an invaluable aid for those embarking on the study of Lacan's seminar on transference, but also essential reading for anyone interested in the question of love and human passion. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural references, Bruce Fink guides the reader with clarity, precision and insight in this perceptive and thought-provoking book."Darian Leader, psycholanalyst "Love, it turns out, has a history. And Lacan on Love beautifully traces that history through the lens of Lacan’s seminar on transference, combining an adventurous cultural investigation of ‘love in the western world’ with actual field notes concerning the way we love now. Bruce Fink takes on our most tired and our most treasured clichés about love and subjects them all to rigorous analysis, producing insights that are anything but expected."Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington University in St. Louis"Clinicians and all of those with an interest in Lacan should be thankful for Fink and his ability to distill Lacan’s often complex formulations into easy-to-understand terms. Lacan on Love is a welcome addition to his continuing project to help Lacan take his rightful place in the English-speaking world as a major figure in psychoanalysis."Pyschology TodayTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Symbolic 1) Freudian Preludes: Love Triangles Obsessives in Love ¥ Hysterics in Love 2) Freudian Conundrums: Love Is Incompatible with Desire �Where They Love They Do Not Desire� ¥ �Where They Desire They Do Not Love� ¥ On Women, Love, and Desire ¥ Too Little ¥ Too Much 3) Lacan�s Reading of Plato�s Symposium Love Is Giving What You Don�t Have ¥ Not Having and Not Knowing ¥ Love as a Metaphor: The Signification of Love ¥ The Miracle of Love ¥ Love in the Analytic Context Part II: Imaginary 4) Freudian Preludes: Narcissism Narcissism and Love ¥ Love for the Ego Ideal 5) Lacan�s Imaginary Register Animals in the Imaginary ¥ Animals in Love ¥ The Formative Role of Images in Human Beings ¥ The Mirror Stage ¥ The Image We Love More Than Ourselves: The Ideal Ego ¥ The Myth of Narcissus ¥ Sibling Rivalry ¥ Lacan�s �Beloved�: Crimes of Passion ¥ �Family Complexes� ¥ Transitivism ¥ The Intrusion (or Fraternal) Complex and the �Solipsistic Ego� ¥ Love and Psychosis ¥ The Dangers of Imaginary-Based Love ¥ Imaginary Passion in the Analytic Setting Part III: Real 6) Love and the Real Repetition Compulsion ¥ The Unsymbolizable ¥ Love at First Sight ¥ The Other Jouissance ¥ Love Is Real? ¥ Love and the Drives ¥ Love as a Link Part IV: General Considerations on Love 7) Languages and Cultures of Love Dependency (or so-called Natural Love) ¥ Attachment ¥ Friendship ¥ Agape (or Christian Love) ¥ Hatred ¥ Attraction ¥ Fixation on the Human Form (Beauty) ¥ Physical Love, Sexual Desire, Lust, Concupiscence, Sex Drive ¥ Fin�Amor (Courtly Love) ¥ Romantic Love ¥Falling in Love (à la Stendhal) ¥ Other Languages and Cultures of Love 8) Reading Plato with Lacan: Further Commentary on Plato�s Symposium The Relationship between Form and Content in the Symposium ¥ Homosexual Love as a Simplified Model ¥ Phaedrus: Love and Theology ¥ Pausanias: The Psychology of the Rich ¥ Eryximachus: Love as Harmony ¥ Agathon�s Speech ¥ Socrates� Speech and the In-between (Metaxú) ¥ Love Triangles Revisited ¥ The Six Stages of Socrates� Speech ¥ After Socrates� Speech ¥ The �Mystery� of the Relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades ¥ Socrates� �Interpretation� ¥ Socrates� �Mistake� ¥ Parting Shot 9) Some Possible Conclusions about Love Unanswered Questions ¥ Love and Psychoanalysis Endnotes References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thinking in Cases
Book SynopsisWhat exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Freud�s famous cases, to a level of reliable generality? In this book, Forrester teases out the meanings of the psychoanalytic case, how to characterize it and account for it as a particular kind of writing. In so doing, he moves from psychoanalysis to the law and medicine, to philosophy and the constituents of science. Freud and Foucault jostle here with Thomas Kuhn, Ian Hacking and Robert Stoller, and Einstein and Freud�s connection emerges as a case study of two icons in the general category of the Jewish Intellectual. While Forrester was particularly concerned with analysing the style of reasoning that was dominant in psychoanalysis and related disciplines, his path-breaking account of thinking in cases will be of great interest to scholars, students and professionals across a wide range of disciplines, from history, law and the social sciences to medicine, clinical practice and the therapies of the world.Trade Review‘Offers an engaging and informativie critique of those who, like Aristotle, reject individual instances as objects of knowledge, as well as giving a very welcome account of the value of thinking in cases not only in psychoanalysis, but also anthropolgy, law, physics, and medicine.’Janet Sayers, Times Higher Education‘Thinking in Cases tells us many new and original things about what it is to generalize, and about what it is to write about psychoanalysis as part of the history and philosophy of science. Forrester's unique combination of subtlety and erudition is often startling and always revealing in these illuminating essays.’Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer ‘Turning the flow of life and experience into so many case histories is a basic technique in medicine and law, as in anthropology and psychoanalysis. In these brilliant and provocative explorations, John Forrester offers his readers means to make sense of how such histories work and what it is to think of the world as made up of cases. He shows conclusively how thinking in cases represents nothing less than an entirely distinct form of reasoning, possessed of its own powers and claims, with remarkable implications for the means of managing and defining individuals and of analysing modern life. This book is an indispensable guide to ways of writing and reasoning in modernity, just as it embodies the luminous achievement of an unsurpassed craftsman of analysis and theory.’ Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge"Everyone with an interest in the medical case history and its wider ramifications should read this book."Medical Humanities"John Forrester, who died in 2015, was the most original historian of the human sciences of his generation… Thinking in Cases is an ideal introduction to Forrester’s thought, containing some of his most important papers. He combined a scientist’s delight in devising new methods to understand recondite things with an exceptionally acute sense of the role of contingency in intellectual discovery. These strengths were central to his style of reasoning and, as these pages testify, made him one of a kind. Everyone with an interest in the medical case history and its wider ramifications should read this book."British Medical Journal"His work is, and always will be, an exemplar for thinking in cases."Psychoanalysis and History‘the most important and influential figure in the history and philosophy of psychoanalysis over the last half-century.’ International Journal of PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Preface - Lisa Appignanesi Introduction - Adam Phillips 1. If p, then what? Thinking in cases 2. On Kuhn�s Case: Psychoanalysis and the Paradigm 3. The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller�s Sexual Excitement 4. On Holding as Metaphor: Winnicott and the Figure of St Christopher 5. The Case of Two Jewish Scientists: Freud and Einstein 6. Inventing Gender Identity: The Case of Agnes Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book
Book Synopsis"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd looks on, transfixed by this enigma-made-man, absorbing the ipse dixit and anticipating some illumination that is taking its time to appear.Non lucet. It’s shady in here, and the Théodores go hunting for their matches. Still, they say, cuicumque in sua arte perito credendum est, whosoever is expert in his art is to be lent credence. At what point is a person mad? The master himself poses the question.That was back in the day. Those were the mysteries of Paris forty years hence.A Dante clasping Virgil’s hand to be led through the circles of the Inferno, Lacan took the hand of James Joyce, the unreadable Irishman, and, in the wake of this slender Commander of the Faithless, made with heavy and faltering step onto the incandescent zone where symptomatic women and ravaging men burn and writhe.An equivocal troupe was in the struggling audience: his son-in-law; a dishevelled writer, young and just as unreadable back then; two dialoguing mathematicians; and a professor from Lyon vouching for the seriousness of the whole affair. A discreet Pasiphaë was being put to work backstage.Smirk then, my good fellows! Be my guest. Make fun of it all! That’s what our comic illusion is for. That way, you shall know nothing of what is happening right before your very eyes: the most carefully considered, the most lucid, and the most intrepid calling into question of the art that Freud invented, better known under its pseudonym: psychoanalysis."—Jacques-Alain MillerTable of ContentsTHE SPIRIT OF THE NODES I. On the logical use of the sinthome, or Freud with Joyce II. On what makes a hole in the real III. On the knot as the subject’s support THE JOYCE TRAIL IV. Joyce and the fox riddle V. Was Joyce mad? VI. Joyce and imposed words THE INVENTION OF THE REAL VII. On a fallace that vouches for the real VIII. On sens, sex and the real IX. From the unconscious to the real BY WAY OF CONCLUSION X. The writing of the Ego Note APPENDICES Joyce the Symptom, by Jacques Lacan Presentation at Lacan’s Seminar, by Jacques Aubert Reading notes, by Jacques Aubert A note threaded stitch by stitch, by Jacques-Alain Miller Translator’s endnotes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Martha Freud: A Biography
Book SynopsisWho was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wife and mother of six? How did she feel, coming from a traditional Jewish family but living in a household with no religious background? How did she cope with the challenge of being married to the man whose work revolutionized our ways of thinking about human sexuality? In this, the first biography of Martha Freud, Katja Behling portrays this remarkable woman, whose loyalty and steadfastness contributed in no small measure to the extraordinary success of psychoanalysis as it went from strength to strength and spread from Vienna to the four corners of the earth. Trade Review"A remarkable story."—Prospect "Behling evokes a Martha who is a far more substantial woman that the 'adored sweetheart in youth' and 'beloved wife in maturity' Freud apostrophized. This book stands alone or as worthy companion to any biography of Freud."—Lisa Appignanesi "Finally a long overdue biography of Martha Freud gives us an authentic picture of the family life of her husband, Sigmund Freud. Speculations about Freud's personal life which range from the trivial to the salacious will need to shop short on the frontier of this excellent portrait of a highly ethical and decent human being and the hard work and the love it takes to establish and transmit these qualities. Martha Freud constructed a network of child- and husband-care and social concern whose inspiration and independence prohibits dismissive attitudes towards the traditional stereotype of the good hausfrau under which she has laboured. Behling's book gives us a picture of a particular woman which makes us rethink our general categories."—Juliet Mitchell, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsForeword by Anton W. Freud Preface HAMBURG A Hamburg Childhood The Move to Vienna Isaac Bernays, Martha’s Grandfather Berman Bernays, Martha’s Father Emmeline Bernays, Martha’s Mother The Lovely Martha Cupid’s Arrow Wandsbek The Cocaine Episode: an Opportunity Missed Paris Eli Bernays, Martha’s Brother Till Death Us Do Part VIENNA Berggasse 19 Minna Bernays, Martha’s Sister Sigmund and Martha Freud Travel Berlin Friends Martha as a Mother The Freud Family Martha’s Children Later Years: She was ‘Normal' Illnesses LONDON Emigration Refuge in Hampstead The Death of Her Husband The Second World War The Final Years Martha’s Death Martha and Her Influence on Psychoanalysis Martha Freud, an Epilogue APPENDIX Chronological Table Bibliography Notes Illustrations Acknowledgements
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University of Minnesota Press The Decision of Desire
Book SynopsisA unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance Of all of Lacan’s reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse, the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings’ relation to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de force that engages works by surrealists such as André Breton, canonical writers like William Faulkner and James Joyce, and the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Baruch Spinoza, The Decision of Desire is groundbreaking in its proposal that each of us can seek out and reimagine our relation to the infinite aporias of desire and thereby detach from its destructive, repetitive forms in favor of joy and affirmation. Providing insight to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. For if desire is always already that of the Other and the unconscious, and also a decision that escapes our consciousness of ourselves, how can we assume an ethical relation to it that avoids the vicious circle of disappointment, neurosis, and destruction? Such is the decision of desire attempted within Silvia Lippi’s profound development of a contemporary psychoanalytic thought.Table of ContentsContentsPreface to the American EditionPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Desire—Between Alterity and DecisionI. Finite Desire, Infinite Desire1. Desire, Squeezed between Signifiers2. Desire, Perverse and Perverted3. Gap, Distance, and Lack in DesireII. The Painful Dialectic of the Object4. The Object Slips Off, a Signifier Takes Its Place5. That Singular Cause of Desire6. “Oneself” as Object of Desire, and LoveIII. Desire and Beyond Desire7.Conatus and/or the Death Drive8. The Laws of Desire9. Enjoyment All and Not-allConclusion: From Double Alienation to JoyNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Other Side of the Digital: The Sacrificial
Book SynopsisA necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity Our tech-fueled economy is often touted as a boon for the development of our fullest human potential. But as our interactions are increasingly turned into mountains of data sifted by algorithms, what impact does this infinite accumulation and circulation of information really have on us? What are the hidden mechanisms that drive our continuous engagement with the digital?In The Other Side of the Digital, Andrea Righi argues that the Other of the digital acts as a new secular God, exerting its power through endless accountability that forces us to sacrifice ourselves for the digital. Righi deconstructs the contradictions inherent in our digital world, examining how ideas of knowledge, desire, writing, temporality, and the woman are being reconfigured by our sacrificial economy. His analyses include how both our self-image and our perception of reality are skewed by technologies like fitness bands, matchmaking apps, and search engines, among others.The Other Side of the Digital provides a necessary, in-depth cultural analysis of how the political theology of the new media functions under neoliberalism. Drawing on the work of well-known thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as Carla Lonzi, Luisa Muraro, and Luciano Parinetto, Righi creates novel appraisals of popular digital tools that we now use routinely to process life experiences. Asking why we must sign up for this sort of regime, The Other Side of the Digital is an important wake-up call to a world deeply entangled with the digital.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sexed Truth of Neoliberal Digitality1. Transcendence: Moses, or The Other of the Other2. Knowledge: Online Fee-Ding as the Solution to Meno’s Paradox3. Desire: The Ballistic Sexuality of Drones and Tinder4. Writing: The Quantified Self and Digital Accountability5. Temporality: Turks, Mammets, and Digital Crowdworking Platforms6. Woman: Love and Automated Profit7. Hysteria: The Moses of Bernardo Bertolucci8. Passivity: The Other as OtherNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Other Side of the Digital: The Sacrificial
Book SynopsisA necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity Our tech-fueled economy is often touted as a boon for the development of our fullest human potential. But as our interactions are increasingly turned into mountains of data sifted by algorithms, what impact does this infinite accumulation and circulation of information really have on us? What are the hidden mechanisms that drive our continuous engagement with the digital?In The Other Side of the Digital, Andrea Righi argues that the Other of the digital acts as a new secular God, exerting its power through endless accountability that forces us to sacrifice ourselves for the digital. Righi deconstructs the contradictions inherent in our digital world, examining how ideas of knowledge, desire, writing, temporality, and the woman are being reconfigured by our sacrificial economy. His analyses include how both our self-image and our perception of reality are skewed by technologies like fitness bands, matchmaking apps, and search engines, among others.The Other Side of the Digital provides a necessary, in-depth cultural analysis of how the political theology of the new media functions under neoliberalism. Drawing on the work of well-known thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as Carla Lonzi, Luisa Muraro, and Luciano Parinetto, Righi creates novel appraisals of popular digital tools that we now use routinely to process life experiences. Asking why we must sign up for this sort of regime, The Other Side of the Digital is an important wake-up call to a world deeply entangled with the digital.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sexed Truth of Neoliberal Digitality1. Transcendence: Moses, or The Other of the Other2. Knowledge: Online Fee-Ding as the Solution to Meno’s Paradox3. Desire: The Ballistic Sexuality of Drones and Tinder4. Writing: The Quantified Self and Digital Accountability5. Temporality: Turks, Mammets, and Digital Crowdworking Platforms6. Woman: Love and Automated Profit7. Hysteria: The Moses of Bernardo Bertolucci8. Passivity: The Other as OtherNotesIndex
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