The Pathology of Democracy: A Letter to Bernard Accoyer and to Enlightened Opinion

ISBN-13: 9781855753372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 96 str.

Jacques-Alain Miller

Opis

Since its inception, Lacanian psychoanalysis has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for inducing acrimonious conflicts and facilitating tumultuous struggles between its own constituency and other areas of inquiry, as well as within its own ranks and among its most loyal adherents. Although Lacanianism has spread like wildfire across the academic disciplines, Lacan's intellectual legacy has maintained a highly unstable equilibrium at the theoretical, clinical and institutional levels of its modus operandi. At the same time, Lacanians have often been at the forefront in addressing the socio-political and cultural tensions that pervade our contemporary living conditions and they have often taken the lead in responding to the pressures of our market economy to control and streamline the psychoanalytic profession. Published in association with the Journal for Lacanian Studies (JLS), this is the first title in a new series that addresses the tensions of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
This volume is by the renowned Lacanian Jacques-Alain Miller. On Wednesday 8 October 2003 the French National Assembly passed a bill intended to regulate, for the first time, the practice of psychotherapy in France. Moved by Bernard Accoyer, the purpose of the legislation was to restrict the practice of psychotherapy to psychiatrists and clinical psychologists; it would effectively no longer be legal for any other practitioners, including psychoanalysts, to practice in the sphere of mental health. This volume consists of Jacques-Alain Miller's letter to Bernard Accoyer, opposing the bill. Contributions from Bernard Burgoyne and Russell Grigg are also included, examining the implications of such a bill in France and elsewhere.

Spis treści

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction /Margaret Rustin -- Theoretical Overview /Alex Dubinsky -- The Technique of Child Psychotherapy /Susan Reid -- Part I. Psychosis and Sexual Abuse -- 1. Finding a Safe Place: A Four-Year-Old Child's Recovery from Sexual Abuse /Deborah Sussman -- 2. The Difficulty of Establishing a Space for Thinking: The Therapy of a Seven-Year-Old Girl /Lynda Miller -- 3. Survival of the Self: A Sixteen-Year-Old Girl's Search for a Good Object /Chriso Andreou -- Discussion /Alex and Hbl2ne Dubinsky -- Part II. Psychosis and Developmental Delay -- 4. The Beginnings of Mind: Psychotherapy of a Sexually Abused Six-Year-Old Girl /Ann Wells -- 5. Symbolisation and the Sense of Identity /Daphne Briggs -- 6. 'Here 1 am!': Self and Object in a Developmentally Delayed Boy with Autistic Features /Sara Rance -- 7. A Little Boy Who Did Not Want to Learn Anything /Alex Dubinsky -- Discussion /Maria Rhode -- Part 111. The Complexity of Psychotic States -- 8. Psychosis and Autism: Schizophrenic, Perverse and Manic- Depressive States During Psychotherapy /Genevihe Haag -- 9. Jeremy and the Bitten Roof /Hbldne Dubinsky -- 10. 'The Ghost is Coming': The Fear of Annihilation in a Nine-Year-Old Boy /S.M.S henuin-White -- 11. Going to Pieces: Autistic and Schizoid Solutions /Maria Rhode -- 12. Rigidity and Stability in a Psychotic Patient: Some Thoughts about Obstacles to Facing Reality in Psychotherapy /Margaret Rustin -- Discussion /Margaret Rustin -- Postscript /Margaret Rustin -- Glossary /Maria Rhode -- References -- Index.

O autorze

Burgoyne, Bernard