Life and Death of Psychoanalysis - On Unconscious Desire and Its Sublimation

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. This book argues that the life and death of psychoanalysis hinges on the question of desire itself, and brings this question back to the center of psychoanalytic thought and practice.

List of contents

Preface -- Fatigue and haste -- Adorno -- Angels of disenchantment -- Lacan -- Instructions on how to fell a tree -- Badiou -- Last remarks

About the author

Jamieson Webster, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She teaches at Eugene Lang College and New York University. Her work focuses on clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis with an interdisciplinary focus on feminine sexuality, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Summary

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. This book argues that the life and death of psychoanalysis hinges on the question of desire itself, and brings this question back to the center of psychoanalytic thought and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Jamieson Webster, Webster Jamieson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367328160
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32816-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Forthcoming