1st Edition

The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other

By Viviane Chetrit-Vatine Copyright 2014
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

According to Jacques Andre, "the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger." But the practice of psychoanalysis can only unfold if there is a strict respect for ethics. The words seduction and ethics, which at first sight seem... Read more
Series Editor’s Foreword , Preface , Introduction , On a Possible Contribution of Levinas’S Thought to Contemporary Psychoanalysis , Ethics and psychoanalysis , Asymmetrical responsibility for the other as the analyst’s ethic , At the Beginning of Life: Primal Seduction, Passion, and Ethical Exigency , The asymmetry of the primal situation: primal seduction and some elements of the Laplanchian theory of generalised seduction , Maternal passion, the analyst’s passion, or the primacy of affect , The ethical exigency at the beginning of life and the need for ethics in analysis , The Origins of Subjective Appropriation in Analysis, The Analyst’S Passion, and the Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation , Subjective appropriation in analysis , The ethical seduction of the analytic situation , A New Psychoanalytic Status For Ethics? The Feminine?Maternal Origins Of The Capacity For Responsibility For The Other , Psychoanalytic hypotheses , The feminine–maternal origins of ethics , Conclusions , The analyst’s anxiety or ethical awakening , Appendices , *Appendix 1. The case of new parental configurations: new perspectives , Appendix 2. Milena , Appendix 3. Responding to (répondre à), answering for (répondre de): Laplanche and responsibility in Levinas *

Biography

Viviane Chetrit-Vatine