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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461346203321

Autore

Webster Jamieson

Titolo

The life and death of psychoanalysis / / by Jamieson Webster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2011

ISBN

0-429-90707-9

0-429-48230-2

1-283-24964-2

9786613249647

1-84940-924-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/17

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Desire

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Fatigue and haste; CHAPTER TWO Angels of disenchantment; CHAPTER THREE Instructions on how to fell a tree; CHAPTER FOUR Last remarks; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The author believes the discovery of psychoanalysis cannot be separated from Freud's self-analysis and the foundational act of writing about his own dreams. Now that the hype, the 100 years of excitement and building up of the institution of psychoanalysis, is in decline, the time seems ripe for a return to the question of the truth of the discovery of the unconscious. This book seeks to take up this crisis and return psychoanalysis to a discourse relevant to contemporary thought as a more personal story of what it means to become a psychoanalyst. The work is divided into three sections, each organized around a major thinker whose work is defined by a definitive engagement with psychoanalysis: Adorno, Lacan and Badiou. Each section is marked by a



careful reading of these thinkers, attempting to deconstruct their understanding of psychoanalysis, including how this work has shaped the author's identity as a psychoanalyst.