Here Lies Bitterness: Healing from Resentment

ISBN-13: 9781509551040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Cynthia Fleury

Recenzje

"Fleury's theorization of resentment is powerfully informed by philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political theory, and at the same time forges its own original and compelling account of self-destructive modes of existence. In this beautifully written meditation on resentment, Fleury opens up new ways of thinking about a subject's capacity to become a trapped, incapacitated, and bitter victim of its own ruminations. The implications of this book are profound and manifold."Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University"In view of the political crises that spare no region of the world today, we can no longer ignore that democracy is mortal and very sick: too often we see the sacred right to vote turned against democratic values. It is essential to understand why, and what is to be done. That is why it is urgent to dive into this book's luminous demonstration that the disease has a name - resentment - and to explore the philosophical and psychoanalytical paths toward healing that its author opens up."Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University

Spis treści

Part IBitterness: What the Man of Resentment Experiences1. Universal Bitterness2. Individual and Society in the Face of Resentment: Rumbling and Rumination3. The Definition and the Manifestations of Resentment4. The Inertia of Resentment and the Resentment-Fetish5. Resentment and Egalitarianism: The End of Discernment6. Melancholy in a State of Abundance7. What Scheler Could Teach to the Ethics of Care8. A Femininity of Resentment?9. The False Self10. The Membrane11. The Necessary Confrontation12. The Taste of Bitterness13. Melancholic Literature14. The Crowd of Missed Beings15. The Faculty of Forgetting16. Expecting Something from the World17. The Tragedy of the Thiasus18. Great Health: Choosing the Open, Choosing the Numinous19. Continuing to Be Astonished by the World20. Happiness and Resentment21. Defending the Strong Against the Weak22. Pathologies of Resentment23. Humanism or Misanthropy?24. Fighting Resentment through Analysis25. Giving Value Back to Time26. In the Counter-Transference and the Analytic Cure27. To the Sources of Resentment, with MontaignePart IIFascism: The Psychological Sources of Collective Resentment1. Exile, Fascism, and Resentment: Adorno, 12. Capitalism, Reification, and Resentment: Adorno, 23. Knowledge and Resentment4. Constellatory Writing and Stupor: Adorno, 35. The Insincerity of Some, the Cleverness of Others6. Fascism as Emotional Plague: Wilhelm Reich, 17. The Fascism within Me: Wilhelm Reich, 28. Historians' Readings, Contemporary Psyches9. Life as Creation: The Open is Salvation10. The HydraPart IIIThe Sea: A World Opened to Man1. Disclosure, According to Fanon2. The Universal at the Risk of the Impersonal3. Caring for the Colonized4. The Decolonization of Being5. Restoring Creativity6. The Therapy of Decolonization7. A Detour By Way of Cioran8. Fanon the Therapist9. The Recognition of Singularity10. Individual Health and Democracy11. The Violation of Language12. Recourse to Hatred13. The Mundus Inversus: Conspiracy and Resentment14. Toward an Enlargement of the Ego, 115. What Separation Means16. Toward an Enlargement of the Ego, 2: Democracy as an Open Systemof Values17. The Man from Underground: Resisting the AbyssNotes

O autorze

Cynthia Fleury is a philosopher and psychoanalyst who holds the Chair of Humanities and Health at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.