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Illusions of a future : psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire / Kate Schechter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schechter, Kate, 1964-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Institute for Psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysis--United States--History--20th century.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysts--United States.
- Psychoanalysts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>This pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis focuses on Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, in order to examine the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its normalization, and now its ""crisis.""</div>
- Contents:
- An imaginary of threat and crisis
- Analysis deferred (or, the talking cure talks back)
- Instituting psychoanalysis in Chicago : two pedagogies of desire
- Professionalization and its discontents : the theory of obedience and the drama of "never splitting"
- The plenty of scarcity : on crisis and transience in the Fifty-First Ward
- Narcissism: "our own developmental line".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357216
- 0822357216
- 9780822376422
- 0822376423
- OCLC:
- 1140687442
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