The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic: A History of Its Structure and Power

ISBN-13: 9781855756465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 436 str.

Christian Ingo Lenz Dunker

Opis

This book provides a detailed examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders of psychoanalytic theory and maintained within contemporary treatment. Alongside the reconstruction of an evolutionary accumulation of healing practices, the book includes linked discussions of current issues pertaining to psychoanalytic treatment and its working structure as elaborated by Freud and Lacan.There are vital political consequences for psychoanalytic practice - here articulated with an acknowledgement of these practical derivations of early pre-psychoanalytic treatments of the soul. The book demonstrates that these are neither mere techniques nor concepts of the world and the human subject, but they concern the way the problem of power is articulated.The historical establishment of psychoanalytical practice becomes legible through analysis of the traces of the elements of a political ontology, an account of the roots of those traces and the elaboration of the conceptual structure of psychoanalysis as theory and treatment, a praxis which maintains its own distinctive identity.

Spis treści

Preface , Note on References , Introduction , The doubt of Ulysses , The return of Empedocles , The act of Antigone , Rhetoric of space, rhetoric of time: paradox and interpretation , Taking care of oneself , Montaigne, the most sceptical of the hysterics , The meditation of Descartes , The structure of psychoanalytic treatment , Kant and the pathological , The rebirth of the clinic as structure and as experience , Hegel: the real and its negative , Logic and politics in psychoanalytic healing , Conclusion

O autorze

Christian Dunker