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The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
The author believes the discovery of psychoanalysis cannot be separated from Freud's self-analysis and the foundational act of writing about his own dreams. Now that the hype, the 100 years of excitement and building up of the institution of psychoanalysis, is in decline, the time seems ripe for a return to the question of the truth of the discovery of the unconscious. This book seeks to take up this crisis and return psychoanalysis to a discourse relevant to contemporary thought as a more personal story of what it means to become a psychoanalyst. The work is divided into three sections, each organized around a major thinker whose work is defined by a definitive engagement with psychoanalysis: Adorno, Lacan and Badiou. Each section is marked by a careful reading of these thinkers, attempting to deconstruct their understanding of psychoanalysis, including how this work has shaped the author's identity as a psychoanalyst.
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The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
From its peculiar birth in Freud’s self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death?
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A child is being aborted
What can Freud’s seminal paper on sadomasochistic masturbation fantasies—“A Child Is Being Beaten”—tell us about the fantasy behind anti-abortion politics? Would Freud be surprised by the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade? Ever attentive to the vicissitudes of the primal scene, sibling jealousy, misogynistic hatred directed towards women at the intersection of sexuality and motherhood, a return to Freud gives new perspective on an old dogma.
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Critique and Cure: A Dream of Uniting Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
Critical theory, whose aim was to historicize philosophy through integrating it with the social sciences, turned to psychoanalysis to find its way through an accounting of philosophy after the Second World War. Over 50 years after this initial project, the rift between philosophy and psychoanalysis has never been greater. If Jacques Lacan could be considered one of the few psychoanalysts to maintain and foster links to philosophical thought in the latter half of the 20th century, his work has sadly remained marginal in the clinical field throughout America and Europe. Both critical theory and Lacan remain skeptical of the direction taken by psychoanalysis after Freud. Reflecting on the history of these two disciplines, as well as through an examination of Theodor Adorno's posthumously published dream journal, critique and cure emerge as two dialectically intertwined themes that gain momentum in the dream of the unification of the philosophical and psychoanalytic projects.
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The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
Jamieson Webster introduces reader time and again to the moment that inaugurates desire, including the desire for psychoanalysis. She recapitulates the major philosophical questions implied by psychoanalytic practice and shows what captures readers' attention, and what remains enigmatic.
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The life and death of psychoanalysis: Ethics in Adorno, Lacan, Badiou
After over a century since its inception, psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline is facing a crisis of legitimacy. The response to this crisis has increasingly been to suture the discipline to more academic, more scientific, more cognitive, and more popular inroads, with a proliferation of methods, techniques, terms and, in general, emendations to the original canon. This dissertation seeks to reject these solutions and address the legitimacy of the crisis of legitimacy; a crisis inherent to any discipline centered on a radical notion of the unconscious. The life of psychoanalysis depends on always standing at the edge of this crisis, the horizon from this vantage point always threatening its very extinction. If one accepts the concept of the unconscious as Freud conceived of it and the clinical work of the analyst as centered only upon its progressive elucidation, then the discipline of psychoanalysis is one that must resurrect itself ethically rather than epistemologically. The unconscious, both theoretically and clinically, challenges the value of knowledge and aims towards what Lacan calls, its fall. By maintaining the ethical position of the analyst in the face of the transference love of the patient, one moves in the direction of a re-centering of subjectivity around the hole that knowledge had previously filled with the neurotic symptom. Testing a clinical ethics through an encounter with three contemporary thinkers who center their discourse on ethics, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Lacan, and Alain Badiou, I will challenge the concept of knowledge. In particular, this challenge will be evoked by the writing itself whose movement is framed by the ethical constraints of a psychoanalysis within a transference.
Dissertation
Reminiscing and recollecting
The group had been divided in half with respect to their scores on the Effectiveness Questionnaire: five patients experienced the treatment as satisfactory and the other half reported a sense of dissatisfaction. One might conclude that satisfaction with therapy is a good quantitative indicator of the success of a treatment with all the concomitant benefits: more secure attachment to the therapist, decrease in anxiety, a widening of one's self-reflective capacities. For Freud, hallucinatory wish fulfilment links satisfaction with memory and the first moment of Symbolization. Desymbolization is a motivated act of destroying Symbolization, meaning making, and linking. The components of the Desymbolization scale are psychic equivalence, affect foreclosure, and disavowal. While the thrust of findings points to the prevalence of Desymbolization among low EQ patients, it is the high EQ patients who may well reveal on closer inspection their own, more concealed, version of closing off meaning.
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A Hamlet complex
The banal, biscuit-box Shakespeare - all humanism and moralism - needs to be broken up and his work made dangerous again, argue Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster. They begin with his greatest play , \"Hamlet\". (Quotes from original text)
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