Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan

ISBN-13: 9780367325473 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 230 str.

Ruth Golan

Opis

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain, anxieties and physical symptoms led him to formulate his theories on the existence of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is neither a theory nor a way of seeing life. It is a form of ethics unlike any othe

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction: psychoanalysis and language-getting to know Lacan -- Love, Phantasy -- What can we know of love? -- Phantasy-from Freud to Lacan and from Lacan to the artist -- Jouissance, Woman -- Paul Celan and the question of feminine jouissance -- One eats-the other eats "no" -- "A woman's voice is erva": the feminine voice and silence-between the Talmudic sages and psychoanalysis -- Testimony -- The secret bearers-from silence to testimony, from the Real to phantasme -- Art, Letter -- The letter as place and the place of the letter -- The Act in psychoanalysis and art -- The return of Orpheus-a psychoanalytic view on realism in contemporary art -- Death, Entropy -- True grace-the blood is the soul -- There is no such form-Arbeit macht frei -- Myth and Act on the crater's edge -- Evolution -- Is interpretation possible? -- About narrow-mindedness and the Real -- Eppur si muove!-nevertheless, it does move

O autorze

Ruth Golan is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and a poet. She lives, works and teaches in Tel-Aviv, and is a member of the GIEP (the Israeli Group of the New Lacanian School). She is also a founding member of the IEF.