Let's keep talking : Lacanian tales of love, sex, and other catastrophes / Yael Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Yael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Let's Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacanian case studies of young people today as they struggle with their own modern existential dilemmas of sex and love, life and death. The context, background, and forms of expression may be contemporary, but the clients' problems, structures, and existential dilemmas are quite classic. The five narrative tales highlight the role a Lacanian orientation played in the interactions, formulations, and results, from initial meetings to terminations. Grounded in concrete clinical material, the case studies illuminate specific and universal themes of human suffering and how we can treat that suffering by speaking. Yael Baldwin argues that in our cultural milieu of "connective technologies", and the rise of biotechnology and psychopharmacology in particular, we are in need of mental health treatment methods that highlight talking and relationships as essential to our personhood, our suffering, and our healing and growth. Let's Keep Talking argues that now, more than ever, we need the endeavour of analytic talk therapy."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION Talking as the best medicine; CHAPTER ONE Needling the virgin: navigating the pathways of hysterical desire; CHAPTER TWO The male in the coffin: a case study of an obsessional; CHAPTER THREE Speaking of throwing up the id: symbolically situating symptoms; CHAPTER FOUR The case of the poisoned salami: doubts, dreams, guilt, and love; CHAPTER FIVE Family ties that bind: the waitress, lack, and loss; CHAPTER SIX More or less rough around the endings: the diverse ways therapies end; 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 February 16, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-91565-9

0-429-90142-9

0-429-47665-5

1-78241-415-0

9780429476655

OCLC:

933211065