Resistance and Psychoanalysis: Impossible Divisions

ISBN-13: 9781474429610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Simon Morgan Wortham

Opis

As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view.

Morgan Wortham also reveals a new theory of phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary political analysis.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: The Love of Lacan (Derrida, Žižek); Section I. Violence and Resistance; 1. Impossible Divisions: Fanon, Hegel and psychoanalysis; 2. Civility and its Discontents: Balibar, Arendt, Lyotard; 3. What is a Complex? Freudian resistances; 4. Fleeced: Derrida and ‘the deciding discourse of castration’; 5. The University and the Hysteric (after Derrida and Freud); Section II. Phobic Resistances; 6. Detestable Residue: from psychoanalysis to Blanchot and Lyotard; 7. Something (or Nothing) to be Scared Of: Meillassoux, Klein, Kristeva; 8. Fear of the Open: resistances of the public sphere; 9. Lupus (Adler and Freud).