Lacan and Addiction: An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9781855758513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 222 str.

Yael Goldman Baldwin; Kareen R. Malone; Thomas Svolos

Opis

With chapters from Rik Loose, Fabi n Naparstek, Patricia Gherovici, Bruce Fink, Thomos Svolos and many others, the anthology is for people interested in the topic of addictions, or in Lacanian psychoanalysis, and especially for those interested in how the two intersect.

Lacan and Addictions is a compilation from a 2006 conference where Lacanians from around the world gathered to speak about addictions. Conference participants explored the complexity of the problem for the individual, society, clinicians, and for treatment. In the current climate, where addiction is mostly treated by variations of twelve step approaches and psychopharmacological -countermeasures, - it is all too easy to lose sight of the dimensions of addiction that render it not just a disease to be managed but rather a significant form of human suffering and a subjective responsibility, both of which are critical components of addiction treatment. More and more, addiction treatment is turning away from psychological and psychoanalytic theorization and towards psychopharmacological measures; this anthology attempts to rectify that situation.

Spis treści

Introduction , Modern symptoms and their effects as forms of administration: a challenge to the concept of dual diagnosis and to treatment , New uses of drugs , Knows no’s nose , Brief comments on Rolf Flor’s case presentation , Introducing the “New Symptoms” , Comments on “Introducing the ‘New Symptoms’” , Bulimia: between phobia and addiction , Two people in a room: ethnographers, unruly subjects, and the pleasures of addiction , “Toxicomanic” passion for an object: the sexual relation exists , The colour of emptiness: addiction and the drive , Leverage of the letter in the emergence of desire: a case of addiction , Lost objects: repetition in Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the clinic , Bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other , Response: Bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other , Addictions, sexual identity, and our times , Speech, language, and savoir in the Lacanian clinic of addiction , Response to Christopher Meyer , Afterword

O autorze

Yael Goldman Baldwin