Inheritance in psychoanalysis / edited by Joel Goldbach and James A. Godley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldbach, Joel, editor.

Godley, James A., editor.

Series:

SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York, 2018.

Summary:

In contrast to the way inheritance is understood in scientific discourse and culture more broadly, inheritance in psychoanalysis is a paradox. Although it's impossible, strictly speaking, for the unconscious to be inherited, this volume demonstrates how the concept of inheritance can occasion a rich reassessment and reinvention of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The collection enacts a critical traversal of inheritance for psychoanalysis: from the most basic assumptions of natural or biological inheritance, such as innateness, heredity, evolution, and ontogenesis, to analysis of the ways cultural traditions can be challenged and transformed, and finally to the reinvention of psychoanalytic practice, in which the ethics of inheritance is fully realized as the individual's responsibility to transform the social bond. Featuring strong interdisciplinary analysis rooted in both psychoanalysis and philosophy, this volume further engages science, politics, and cultural studies, and addresses contemporary political challenges such as autism and transgenderism.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: inheritance in psychoanalysis / James A. Godley

Natural inheritance

Against heredity : the question of causality in psychoanalysis / Samo Tomlic

Lacan with evo-devo? / Lrenzo Chiesa

The late innate : Jean Laplanche, Jaak Panksepp, and the distinction between sexual drives and instincts / Adrian Johnston

Hegel's mother / Frank Ruda

Biopower in Lacan's inheritance (or, from Foucault to Freud, via Deleuze, and back to Marx) / A. Kiarina Kordela

Cultural inheritance

Drug is the love : literature, psychopharmacology, psychoanalysis / Justin Clemens

"Our heritage was left to us without a testament" : or is it the other way around? / Rebecca Comay

"We" and "they" : animals behind our back / Oxana Timofeeva

F. O. Matthiessen : heir to (American) Jouissance / Donald E. Pease

A mortimer trap : the passing of death in the real life of Sebastian Knight / Sigi Jöttkandt

Freud fainted; or, "It all started 1000s of years ago in Egypt" / Lydia R. Kerr

The inheritance of psychoanalysis

Freud's Lamarckian clinic / Daniel Wilson

Freud against Oedipus? / Philippe van Haute

Plastic sex? : the beauty of it! / Patricia Gherovici

The autistic body and its objects / Eric Laurent

The insistence of Jouissance : on inheritance and psychoanalysis / Joan Copjec with James A. Godley

About the contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438467894

1438467893