Psychoanalysis at Its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn

ISBN-13: 9781138353770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Anthony Elliott; Charles Spezzano

Opis

Psychoanalysis at its Limits offers an account of the complex and contradictory nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age. It presents a history and critique of the concept of postmodernism throughout contemporary psychoanalytic thought. It is a critical survey of relations between desire, selfhood and culture.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Rethinking Psychoanalysis in the Postmodern Era  1. Psychoanalysis at its Limits: Navigating the Postmodern Turn  2. Final Analysis: Can Psychoanalysis Survive in the Postmodern West?  3. Postmodernism and the Adoption of Identity  4. The Shadow of the Other Subject: Intersubjectivity and Feminist Theory  5. The Ambivalence of Identity: Psychoanalytic Theory in the Space Between Modernity and Postmodernity  6. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism  7. From Ghosts to Ancestors: The Psychoanalytic Vision of Hans Loewald  8. The Dialectically Constituted/Decentred Subject of Psychoanalysis  9. Why the Self Is, and Is Not, Empty: Trauma and Transcendence in the Postmodern Psyche  10. The Struggle to Imagine  Index

O autorze

Anthony Elliott, Charles Spezzano