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Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the twentieth century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris, and Jacques Lacan.
List of contents
1. Lacan and Kris’s Plagiarist 2. The Plagiarised Plagiarist 3. The Parrying Ego 4. The Reclaiming of Death 5. Acting out and passage à l’acte 6. Foreclosed Orality 7. The Property of Ideas 8. The Freedom of the Slave 9. Statement and Enunciation 10. French Controversies 11. The Missing Name 12. …perseverare diabolicum est 13. Understanding is Misunderstanding 14. The Party and the Pope… 15. Anti-Americanism 16. Eating Nothingness 17. The Raft of Skinny Virgins 18. "Annie Reich’s" Countertransference 19. Anna Freud’s Counter-Defence 20. The Freudian Legacy 21. Interpretation and Truth 22. Laughing Unconscious 23. Reformatory Analysis 24. Adaptive Analysis 25. Analytic Idealities 26. A non-psychological Psychoanalysis 27. Psychoanalytic Exhibit
About the author
Sergio Benvenuto is a psychoanalyst in Rome, president of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis, founder and former editor of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Cognition at the Italian Council for Scientific Research.
Summary
Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the twentieth century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris, and Jacques Lacan.
