Monstrosity and the Psychoanalytic Dimensions of the Uncanny

This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to address contemporary experiences of anguish, desire, suffering and alienation.

List of contents

Introduction 1. On philosophy and psychoanalysis: An (uncanny) vompossibility 2. Monstrosity in dispute: Monsters in history and its implications to thinking 3. The uncanniness of monstrosity (or is it the other way around?): The contours towards another grammar between philosophy and psychoanalysis 4. Monstrosity and impasses of Fetishism: A Marxist approach (or, a debate towards "monstrous materialism") 5. A monstrous grammar for psychoanalysis Conclusion

About the author

Rodrigo Gonsalves is a practicing psychoanalyst, with a PhD in Philosophy, Critical Theory and the Arts at European Graduate School and is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo. He authored numerous chapters and articles about Lacanian psychoanalysis and new directions in Marxist theory. He is currently a researcher for Latesfip (Interdepartmental Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis/USP), member of GPOL/PSOPOL (USP), member of the editorial committee of the journal CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory and an editor-member of Lavra Palavra, an independent publishing house from Brazil.

Product details

• Authors: Rodrigo Gonsalves
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032568904
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256890-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis