Lacan in the End Times - In the Name of the Absent Father

This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society, and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be theorised uniquely psychoanalytically, in the corresponding ferocity of the internal object and exposure to the Real.

List of contents

Part I 1. Do You Believe in Reality? 2. Where Have All the Fathers Gone? 3. Loving the Father into Life. 4. Being (not) in the World without a Father Part II 5. The Mystical Origins of Psychoanalysis in Ireland. 6. Hanaghan Returns. 7. Is it Righteous to Be? 8. Tired to Death in an Evil World. 9. The Irreducible Datum. Part III 10. The Evidence.

About the author

Rob Weatherill is practising and supervisory analyst in Dublin, Ireland, a member of two psychoanalytic groups (IFPP (Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) and ICP (Irish Council for Psychotherapy)) and a founding member of APPI (Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland). He has a master’s degree in psychotherapy from St. Vincent’s University Hospital as well as a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. He taught psychoanalysis in post-graduate courses at University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology. He currently convenes two supervision groups that meet fortnightly. He has published five books internationally and edited one other.

Summary

This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society, and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be theorised uniquely psychoanalytically, in the corresponding ferocity of the internal object and exposure to the Real.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Weatherill, Rob J. Weatherill, Weatherill Rob
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032125268
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212526-8
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Religion: general, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis