Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis : Or the Villa of the Mysteries

ISBN-13: 9780745615301 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str.

Bice Benvenuto

Opis

This work looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Drawing on 12 years of clinical practice, Bice Benvenuto offers an undiscovered Lacan, who helps make sense of people's symptoms and their lives. Benvenuto's approach to Lacan in the clinic highlights the way in which the ancient mysteries and the unveiling of the phallus prefigure discoveries in Lacanian psychoanalysis about the symbol, the feminine and the sacred.

Recenzje

′This book unusually combines the theoretical and the clinical in a poetic style. Since the author′s subjects are myth and psychoanalysis, such an approach is an effective one. I am much taken by the originality of her use of myth in relation to psychoanalysis and the freshness of her detailed discussions: I think her particular achievement is to have made the clinical poetic.′ Elizabeth Wright, University of Cambridge

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.

Preface.

A Note on the Ancient Mysteries.

Part I: .

1. A Discourse on Love.

2. What is the Psychoanalyst Supposed to Know?.

3. The Passion of Childhood Interlude: Madness in Philosophy, or Derrida′s Love of Lacan.

Part II: .

4. Hysteria: Comedy. Dell′arte. .

5. Compliance and Disagreement.

6. The Paradoxes of the Earthly Woman.

Part III: .

7. A Myth in Development: The Case of Little Hans.

8. Winnicott′s "Piggle".

9. Klein′s Narrative. .

Part IV: .

10. To Die of Shame.

Time to Conclude.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

Bice Benvenuto is the author of several previous books including The Works of Jacques Lacan: An Introduction (co–authored with Roger Kennedy, Free Association Books, 1986). The author is a member of the Ecole Europeenne de Psychanalyse (Paris) and has been practising and teaching psychoanalysis in London for the last 12 years.

Blurb

This is the first book that looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Drawing on her twelve years of clinical practice, Bice Benvenuto offers an exciting and undiscovered Lacan, who helps make sense of our symptoms and our lives.

Benvenuto′s approach to Lacan in the clinic highlights the way in which the Ancient Mysteries, the unveiling of the Phallus, prefigure discoveries in Lacanian psychoanalysis about the symbol, the feminine and the sacred.

Benvenuto brings both the clinical and the symbolic threads together in a new theory of feminine sexuality which takes up where Lacan drew the veil. This book will appeal to students, academics and practitioners in psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and feminist studies, psychology, philosophy and anyone interested in the practical application of Lacan′s work.