Loving psychoanalysis : looking at culture with Freud and Lacan / Ruth Golan ; [translated by Jonathan Martin].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golan, Ruth.

Standardized Title:

Ahavat ha-psikhoʼanalizah. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study.Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain, anxieties and physical symptoms led him to formulate his theories on the existence of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is neither a theory nor a way of seeing life. It is a form of ethics unlike any other, it is the subjects way of relating to the world. However, there is no doubt that it owes its existence to science. It could perhaps be termed the science of the particular, because it deals with the unique truth of the subject. Lacan, in contrast to the theoreticians who aspired towards universality, similarly described psychoanalysis as the approximate science of the subject. This book is a kind of mosaic, composed of both beginning and concluding acts. It is an anthology of essays and lectures of recent years, which comprise an attempt to organize and pass on what can be learned from various psychoanalytical viewpoints from various cultural disciplines, particularly ones that reflect the discontent that is inherent within them.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: psychoanalysis and language-getting to know Lacan; PART I LOVE, PHANTASY; PART II JOUISSANCE, WOMAN; PART III TESTIMONY; PART IV ART, LETTER; PART V DEATH, ENTROPY; PART VI EVOLUTION; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91597-7

0-429-90174-7

0-429-47697-3

1-283-06911-3

9786613069115

1-84940-516-6

9780429476976

OCLC:

723945234