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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
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    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 mutually exclusive, are thus, as the author shows, at the heart of the analytic perspective. The author takes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas' thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset, due to the transmission of enigmatic messages compromised by his or her unconscious. The analyst's ethical position is re-examined and with it the feminine/maternal origins of the human capacity for responsibility for the other.

    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 *

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    Viviane Chetrit-Vatine

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