1st Edition
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis A Conversation about Living in Joy
1 The Human Condition - and in Light of It: Psychoanalysis as Ethics
2 The Simple Pleasure of the Body
3 On Pleasure and Restraint
4 The Ethics of Renunciation
5 The Subject, the Other, and the Object Between Them
6 Oedipus
7 Being Important or Rejected
8 Orphanhood and Theology
9 Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic
10 A Hike on the Mountain
11 On Anxiety
12 More About Jouissance, and a Little About Depression
13 Different Reasons for Depression
14 Buddhist Ethics and Relativistic Ethics Meet: Before Parting
15 At Last – Love
16 And Finally: Death
Biography
Yehuda Israely, Ph.D. is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and writer. He is the winner of the 2011 Geffen award for original sci-fi literature. He is a Founding member of the Forum Lacan Tel-Aviv and a member of The International Forums of the Lacanian Field.
Esther Pelled, Ph.D. is a psychologist and writer. She was awarded the Sapir Prize for literature in 2017. Her doctorate dealt with a comparative study of Buddhist thought and psychoanalysis.
"There have been very few books that I sent so many quotes from to close people (especially my spouse). For example, this one: "Being a mother is the most ungrateful role. The better you do it the more redundant you become." Or this: "When the father loves the children, he teaches them to love themselves. When he loves their mother, he teaches them to love, period." And there is more.
This book definitely fulfills its authors’ declaration from the first page: to help readers "live better with themselves and their environment. Israely and Pelled highlight phenomena from daily life with the powerful floodlight of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. It’s the type of book you will go back to again and again as new events unfold in your life, like a quiet dependable friend." - Itai Ziv – Yediot Aharonot Daily Paper
