1st Edition

Speculations After Freud Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture

Edited By Michael Munchow, Sonu Shamdasani Copyright 1994
246 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Psychoanalysis has transformed our culture. We constantly use and refer to ideas from psychoanalysis, often unconsciously. Psychology, philosophy, politics, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, literary studies, cultural studies, and other disciplines have been permeated by the competing schools of psychoanalysis. But what of psychoanalysis itself? Where is it going one hundred years after... Read more
Introduction The Censure of the Speculative Sonu Shamdasani 1. Psychoanalysis and Politics Cornelius Castoriadis 2. Psychoanalysis in Time of Distress Julia Kristeva 3. Man is By Nature a Political Animal, or Patient as Citizen James Hillman 4. Psychoanalysis in Left-Field and Field-Working Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 5. The Alibis of the Subject. Lacan and Philosophy Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen 6. It Is Only the First Step That Costs Sarah Kofman 7. Lust Alphonso Lingis 8. Immanent Death, Imminent Death David Farrell Krell 9. The Word of Silence William Richardson 10. The Sandman Looks at the Uncanny Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok 11. The Pleasure of Therapy Charles E.Scott

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Michael Munchow, Sonu Shamdasani