From freud to Kafka : the paradoxical foundation of the life-and-death instinct / by Philippe Refabert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Réfabert, Philippe, author.

Contributor:

Jacob, Agnès, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Kafka, Franz.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book takes the reader on a captivating journey leading from an erroneous founding assumption inherited from Freud, to the proposal of a principle better suited to allowing the psychoanalyst to accompany the patient out of his impasse. The founding assumption of the book, already questioned by many analysts among whom Sandor Ferenczi figures as a brilliant forerunner, was the author's starting point in re-examining the basic precepts of psychoanalysis. Reading Kafka made the author conclude that this masterful storyteller describes borderline situations, so familiar to him, better than anyone. An avid reader of Freud, Kafka suggests that the human capacity to bear a paradoxical position between life and death is not given to the child naturally, at birth. Kafka seems to say that giving life is easy, but that giving it the necessary support in the form of the trace of death is more problematic.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PART I; CHAPTER ONE A misunderstanding between Freud and the man from the country; CHAPTER TWO Oedipus' answer to Freud's enigma; CHAPTER THREE A presumed paradoxical endowment; CHAPTER FOUR Sketches of the paradoxical system in Freud's work; CHAPTER FIVE A transitional psychic matrix; CHAPTER SIX An origin between absorption and expulsion; CHAPTER SEVEN Destruction of the paradoxical system: murder of the other in the self; PART II; CHAPTER EIGHT Failure of the paradoxical system (1): before the Law

CHAPTER NINE Failure of the paradoxical system (2): The Silence of the Sirens and Josephine the SingerCHAPTER TEN Absorption-expulsion: The Vulture; CHAPTER ELEVEN The vicarious system of the man-from-the-country; CHAPTER TWELVE The paradox of the birth of the artist: The Judgment; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The resolution of a misunderstanding; APPENDIX Schreber's transsexuality as catastrophic healing and method of survival after the destruction of the paradoxical system; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-91412-1

9780429896970

0-429-47512-8

1-78241-230-1

9780429475122

OCLC:

881028908