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Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. This book brings together noted Lacanian psychoanalysts and scholars to fill an important gap in psychoanalytic scholarship that addresses what the contributors term the "angwash" of our current time.
List of contents
Foreword: Is the American Youth Rebelling Against America? Gérard PommierIntroduction
Vanessa Sinclair and Manya SteinkolerChapter 1: Bodies and the Object-Death
Jean-Jacques MoscovitzChapter 2: Political Philosophy in Freud: The Death Drive and the Critical Faculty
Judith ButlerChapter 3: The End(s) of Violence
Juliet Flower MacCannellChapter 4: The Sex in Their Violence: Eroticizing Biopower
Todd McGowanChapter 5: Lone Wolf Terrorists: Howling in the Eye of the Wind - The Case of Adam Lanza
Manya SteinkolerChapter 6: The Tortured Child
Franz KaltenbeckChapter 7: Click and Destroy: The Clinic of Video Games
Vincent Le CorreChapter 8: Violence in Repetition
Martine FourréChapter 9: The Violence of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Patrick LandmanChapter 10: How to Measure What: Notes on Universals and Particulars
Todd DeanChapter 11: Violence to Aggressiveness
Guy DanaChapter 12: Why the Zombies Ate My Neighbors: Whither Ambivalence?
Carol Owens & Stephanie SwalesChapter 13: Susan Stern:
Sham Geneviève MorelChapter 14:
Breaking the Spell of the Slave Revolt in Morality: From the Subreption of Identity-in-Difference to the Repetition of the Paraconsistent Alireza TaheriChapter 15: Terror and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis in Argentina 1976-1983
Patricia Gherovici
About the author
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based in New York City, USA and Stockholm, Sweden, author of
Switching Mirrors (Trapart, 2016) and the upcoming
Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2019) and editor of
Rendering Unconscious (Trapart, 2018).
Manya Steinkoler, Ph.D. is an English Professor at Borough of Manhattan College CUNY and a psychoanalyst in New York City, USA. She is co-editor with Patricia Gherovici of
Lacan on Madness: Madness Yes You Can't (Routledge, 2015),
Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and forthcoming
Psychoanalysis and Sexuality: From Feminism to Trans (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Summary
Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. This book brings together noted Lacanian psychoanalysts and scholars to fill an important gap in psychoanalytic scholarship that addresses what the contributors term the "angwash" of our current time.
