1st Edition

The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis

By Jamieson Webster Copyright 2011
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    From its peculiar birth in Freud’s self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death?

    Preface -- Fatigue and haste -- Adorno -- Angels of disenchantment -- Lacan -- Instructions on how to fell a tree -- Badiou -- Last remarks

    Biography

    Jamieson Webster, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She teaches at Eugene Lang College and New York University. Her work focuses on clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis with an interdisciplinary focus on feminine sexuality, philosophy, and aesthetics