Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Benvenuto draws on her twelve years of clinical practice to develop a novel perspective on the work of Lacan.
Trade Review'This book unusually combines the theoretical and the clinical in a poetic style. Since the author's subjects are myth and psychoanalysis, such an approach is an effective one. I am much taken by the originality of her use of myth in relation to psychoanalysis and the freshness of her detailed discussions: I think her particular achievement is to have made the clinical poetic.'
Elizabeth Wright, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Preface.
A Note on the Ancient Mysteries.
Part I: .
1. A Discourse on Love.
2. What is the Psychoanalyst Supposed to Know?.
3. The Passion of Childhood Interlude: Madness in Philosophy, or Derrida's Love of Lacan.
Part II: .
4. Hysteria: Comedy. Dell'arte. .
5. Compliance and Disagreement.
6. The Paradoxes of the Earthly Woman.
Part III: .
7. A Myth in Development: The Case of Little Hans.
8. Winnicott's "Piggle".
9. Klein's Narrative. .
Part IV: .
10. To Die of Shame.
Time to Conclude.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
