The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation : the Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other / Viviane Chetrit-Vatine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chetrit-Vatine, Viviane, author.

Contributor:

Weller, Andrew, tr.

Series:

IPA - The Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series

The International Psychoanalytical Association psychoanalytic ideas and applications series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Practice.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

According to Jacques Andre, "the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger." But the practice of psychoanalysis can only unfold if there is a strict respect for ethics. The words seduction and ethics, which at first sight seem mutually exclusive, are thus, as the author shows, at the heart of the analytic perspective. The authortakes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas' thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset, due to the transmission of enigmatic messages compromised by his or her unconscious. The analyst's ethical position is re-examined and with it the feminine/maternal origins of the human capacity for responsibility for the other.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; Introduction; PART I ON A POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF LEVINAS'S THOUGHT TO CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS; Introduction to Part I; CHAPTER ONE Ethics and psychoanalysis; CHAPTER TWO Asymmetrical responsibility for the other as the analyst's ethic; PART II AT THE BEGINNING OF LIFE: PRIMAL SEDUCTION, PASSION, AND ETHICAL EXIGENCY; CHAPTER THREE The asymmetry of the primal situation: primal seduction and some elements of the Laplanchian theory of generalised seduction

CHAPTER FOUR Maternal passion, the analyst's passion, or the primacy of affectCHAPTER FIVE The ethical exigency at the beginning of life and the need for ethics in analysis; PART III THE ORIGINS OF SUBJECTIVE APPROPRIATION IN ANALYSIS, THE ANALYST'S PASSION, AND THE ETHICAL SEDUCTION OF THE ANALYTIC SITUATION; CHAPTER SIX Subjective appropriation in analysis; CHAPTER SEVEN The ethical seduction of the analytic situation; PART IV A NEW PSYCHOANALYTIC STATUS FOR ETHICS? THE FEMININE- MATERNAL ORIGINS OF THE CAPACITY FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OTHER; Introduction to Part IV

CHAPTER EIGHT Psychoanalytic hypothesesCHAPTER NINE The feminine-maternal origins of ethics; CHAPTER TEN Conclusions; EPILOGUE The analyst's anxiety or ethical awakening; APPENDICES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

"First published in French in 2012 as La séduction éthique de la situation analytique by PUF"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-92065-2

0-429-90642-0

0-429-48165-9

1-78241-162-3

9780429481659

OCLC:

871190140