1st Edition
Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse Knowing and Being since Freud's Psychology
By Barnaby B. Barratt
Copyright 1993
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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According to the author, psychoanalytic theory and practice – which discloses ‘the interminable falsity of the human subject’s belief in the mastery of its own mental life’ – is in part responsible for the coming of the postmodern era. In this title, originally published in 1993, Barratt examines the role of psychoanalysis in what he sees as the crisis of modernism, shows why the modernist... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. The Psychoanalytic Revolution 2. Free-Associative Method and the Dimensions of Meaningfulness 3. Semiosis I: Signification, Subject, and Totality 4. Semiosis II: Representational Time, Law and Order 5. Desire I: Temporality and the Undiscussible Otherwise 6. Desire II: Libidinality and the Contradictorious "Unconscious" 7. Working-through I: Ethicality, Critique and Method 8. Working-through II: Free-Associative Discourse, Mobilization and Cure 9. Postmodern Subversions and the Future of Psychoanalysis. Bibliography. Index of Authors. Subject Index.
Biography
Barnaby B. Barratt
