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Record Nr.

UNINA9910619268203321

Autore

Samuels Robert

Titolo

(Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience / / by Robert Samuels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031133275

9783031133268

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

The Palgrave Lacan Series, , 2946-420X

Disciplina

411

150.1952

Soggetti

Psicoanàlisi

Psychoanalysis

Psychology

Clinical psychology

Culture - Study and teaching

Neuropsychology

Theoretical Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Cultural Theory

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Freud’s Project -- Chapter 3. Neuroscience and the Repression of Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 4. Moving from Freud’s Five Principles to Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts -- Chapter 5. The Desire of the Analyst and the American Repression of Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 6. Zizek and the Empty Unconscious -- Chapter 7. Misunderstanding Psychoanalysis from the Left -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Still (Mis)Understanding Psychoanalysis.

Sommario/riassunto

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is



argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how Freud’s unpublished Project for a Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory. Robert Samuels is Lecturer in Advanced Writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He is the author of 14 books, including Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017).