Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language: Clinical Cases on the Edge

ISBN-13: 9781032023700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 110 str.

Dana Amir

Opis

This book examines the importance of language and writing in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and an understanding of how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche in clinical practice and everyday life.

Recenzje

"In this rich and prolific book Amir brings to our attention the many aspects of the relations between psychic processes and the principles of language. She casts a light on regions that are outside the reach of verbal expression or even clash with any effort at articulation. Her clinical innovations, anchored in her profound understanding of the mazes of psychic syntax, make a daring and original addition to the psychoanalytic canon." - Prof. Aner Govrin, Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Spis treści

Foreword by Aner Govrin.  Prologue: The Body is All Ears  1. Tonality and Atonality in the Psychic Space  2. The Malignant Ambiguity of Incestuous Language  3. The Two Sleeps of Orlando: Gender Crossing as Caesura or Cut  4. The Metaphorical, the Metonymical and the Psychotic Aspects of Obsessive Symptomatology  5. ‘Screen Confessions’: A Fresh Analysis of Perpetrators’ ‘Newspeak.'  6. Epilogue: "Studium" and "Punctum" in Psychoanalytic Writing: Reading Case Stories through Roland Barthe

O autorze

Prof. Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, editor of Maarag – the Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis (the Hebrew University), poetess and literature researcher. Her previous non-fiction books are: Cleft Tongue (Karnac Books, 2014); On the Lyricism of the mind (Routledge, 2016); Bearing Witness to the Witness (Routledge, 2019).