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An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics - Consultancy Research and Training (Hardcover): David Lawlor, Mannie Sher An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics - Consultancy Research and Training (Hardcover)
David Lawlor, Mannie Sher
R4,177 Discovery Miles 41 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides an introduction to systems psychodynamic theory and its application to organisational consultancy, research and training, outlining systems dynamics methods and their historical and theoretical developments. Systems Psychodynamics is an emerging field of social science, the boundaries of which are continually being refined and re-defined. The 'systems' designation refers to open systems concepts that provide the framing perspective for understanding the structural aspects of organisational systems. These include its design, division of labour, levels of authority, and reporting relationships; the nature of work tasks, processes and activities; its mission and primary task; and the nature and patterning of the organisation's task and sentient boundaries and the transactions across them. This book presents a critical appraisal of the systems psychodynamics paradigm and its application to present-day social and organisational difficulties, showing how a holistic approach to organisational and social problems can offer a fresh perspective on difficult issues. Bringing together the theory and practice of systems psychodynamics for the first time, this book provides an examination of the systems psychodynamics paradigm in action. This book gives an accessible and thorough guide to understanding and using systems psychodynamic ideas for analysts, managers, policy makers, consultants and researchers in a wide range of professional and clinical settings.

C. G. Jung's Archetype Concept - Theory, Research and Applications (Paperback): Christian Roesler C. G. Jung's Archetype Concept - Theory, Research and Applications (Paperback)
Christian Roesler
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The concept of archetypes is at the core of C. G. Jung's analytical psychology. In this interesting and accessible volume, Roesler summarises the classical theory of archetypes and the archetypal stages of the individuation process as it was developed by Jung and his students. Various applications of archetypes, in cultural studies as well as in clinical practice, are demonstrated with detailed case studies, dream series, myths, fairy tales, and so on. The book also explores how the concept has further developed as a result of research and, for the first time, integrates findings from anthropology, human genetics, and the neurosciences. Based on these contemporary insights, Roesler also makes a compelling argument for why some of Jung's views on the concept should be comprehensively revised. Offering new insights on foundational Jungian topics like the collective unconscious, persona, and shadow, C. G. Jung's Archetype Concept is of great interest to Jungian students, analysts, psychotherapists, and scholars.

Racial Legacies - Jung, Politics and Culture (Hardcover): Fanny Brewster, Helen Morgan Racial Legacies - Jung, Politics and Culture (Hardcover)
Fanny Brewster, Helen Morgan
R1,573 Discovery Miles 15 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Uniquely presented as a conversation between two female analysts: one African American and one white British. Confronts themes including race, heritage, racism, politics, colonialism and culture.

Containing Madness - Gender and 'Psy' in Institutional Contexts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jennifer M. Kilty, Erin Dej Containing Madness - Gender and 'Psy' in Institutional Contexts (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jennifer M. Kilty, Erin Dej
R3,379 Discovery Miles 33 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection explores the discursive production and treatment of mental distress as it is mediated by gender and race in different institutional contexts. Featuring analyses of the prison, the psychiatric hospital, immigration detention, and other locales, this book explores the multiple interlocking oppressions that result in the diagnosis and medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of individuals constituted as 'mentally ill' at various historical moments and across institutional spaces. Contributors unpack how feminine, masculine, and transgender bodies are made up as mentally ill/sick/deviant by way of biomedical and institutional knowledges and discourses and are intervened upon by different institutional and expert authorities.

Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind - A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function (Hardcover): Teodosio Giacolini,... Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind - A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function (Hardcover)
Teodosio Giacolini, Cristiana Pirrongelli
R4,185 Discovery Miles 41 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological (sexuality, pleasure, and dreams), social (pornography), and psychopathological (learning and attention disorders, anhedonia) phenomena relevant to therapists and analysts. Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind stands out for its focus on the emotional-motivational aspects of the mind, which are considered through the lenses of affective neuroscience, psychoanalytic theory and neuropsychoanalysis, and is important reading for scholars and psychologists interested in the topics originally addressed by Freud in his 1895 publication Project for a Scientific Psychology.

Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind - A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function (Paperback): Teodosio Giacolini,... Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind - A Biological Understanding of Human Mental Function (Paperback)
Teodosio Giacolini, Cristiana Pirrongelli
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comprehensive and well-curated collection explores how neuroscience can be integrated into psychoanalytic thinking and practice, reexamining the biological science within psychological (sexuality, pleasure, and dreams), social (pornography), and psychopathological (learning and attention disorders, anhedonia) phenomena relevant to therapists and analysts. Neuropsychoanalysis of the Inner Mind stands out for its focus on the emotional-motivational aspects of the mind, which are considered through the lenses of affective neuroscience, psychoanalytic theory and neuropsychoanalysis, and is important reading for scholars and psychologists interested in the topics originally addressed by Freud in his 1895 publication Project for a Scientific Psychology.

Lost to Desire - The Ecole Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive (Paperback): Wolfgang... Lost to Desire - The Ecole Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive (Paperback)
Wolfgang Lassmann
R1,102 Discovery Miles 11 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of operatoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners - close to the Ecole Psychosomatique de Paris - over a period of some sixty years. As a 'skin for thought' it facilitated change while preserving coherence, gradually beginning to attract further considerations. Important themes have included: the early groundwork necessary for the configuration of fantasy, the importance of a shared imaginary, the role of denial and obliterated memories as a bond between people, emergency measures of a Me cut off from revitalisation, the effects of the rhythms and atmosphere at the workplace on family life, and the consequences of a crisis suppressed for lack of a holding frame. As psychoanalytic discourse adapted to the challenges, the original perspective changed aspect, moving from a systematic evaluation of what the patients did not produce to what the analyst had to fill in to make sense of the situation. Clashing with the terrain, French psychoanalysts raised important problems about psychic anaemia that are stimulating and deserve cross-cultural discussion. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training who wish to learn more about this ground-breaking work on memory and trauma, and how to apply it to their own practice.

Lost to Desire - The Ecole Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive (Hardcover): Wolfgang... Lost to Desire - The Ecole Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive (Hardcover)
Wolfgang Lassmann
R4,193 Discovery Miles 41 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of operatoire continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. The author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners - close to the Ecole Psychosomatique de Paris - over a period of some sixty years. As a 'skin for thought' it facilitated change while preserving coherence, gradually beginning to attract further considerations. Important themes have included: the early groundwork necessary for the configuration of fantasy, the importance of a shared imaginary, the role of denial and obliterated memories as a bond between people, emergency measures of a Me cut off from revitalisation, the effects of the rhythms and atmosphere at the workplace on family life, and the consequences of a crisis suppressed for lack of a holding frame. As psychoanalytic discourse adapted to the challenges, the original perspective changed aspect, moving from a systematic evaluation of what the patients did not produce to what the analyst had to fill in to make sense of the situation. Clashing with the terrain, French psychoanalysts raised important problems about psychic anaemia that are stimulating and deserve cross-cultural discussion. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training who wish to learn more about this ground-breaking work on memory and trauma, and how to apply it to their own practice.

D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis (Paperback): John Turner D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
John Turner
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed - yet eminently readable - historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D.H. Lawrence. It considers the impact on his writing, through his relationship with Frieda Weekley, of the maverick Austrian analyst Otto Gross; it situates the great works of 1911-20 in relation to the controversial issues at stake in the Freud-Jung quarrel, about which his good friend, the English psychoanalyst David Eder, kept him informed; and it explores his sympathy with the maverick American analyst Trigant Burrow. It is a study to interest a literary audience by its close reading of Lawrence's texts, and a psychoanalytic audience by its detailed consideration of the contribution made to contemporary debate by three comparatively neglected analytic thinkers.

Paradoxes in Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Paperback): Yehuda Israely Paradoxes in Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
Yehuda Israely
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Presents a new paradigm for considering life problems. Considers everyday paradoxes and how to approach them. Suitable for clinicians and academic readers interested in Lacan.

Primal Philosophy - Rousseau with Laplanche (Paperback): Lucas Fain Primal Philosophy - Rousseau with Laplanche (Paperback)
Lucas Fain
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Primal Philosophy: Rousseau with Laplanche presents the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's thought on the possibility of philosophy and the responsibility of the philosopher. Through a close reading of texts from throughout Rousseau's entire corpus, together with inspiration from Jean Laplanche's seminal work on the Freudian theory of seduction, this book positions Rousseau within a contemporary debate involving Theodor Adorno and Alain Badiou on the fate of philosophy after Heidegger. In confrontation with the radical subordination of ethics to ontology, which is characteristic of Cartesian thought and its culmination in Heidegger's philosophical legacy, the reading of Rousseau with Laplanche elaborates the rootedness of philosophy in a process of primal seduction, which opens a way to rethink the meaning of a genuine first philosophy, not as the study of being qua being in the tradition initiated by Aristotle, but as primal philosophy, the study of the genesis of philosophy itself. The rootedness of philosophy in a process of primal seduction then reveals the primal responsibility of the philosopher-a responsibility for human happiness found in the possibility of philosophy itself.

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects - From Mesolithic to Eco-queer (Hardcover): Thomas Houlton Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects - From Mesolithic to Eco-queer (Hardcover)
Thomas Houlton
R4,488 Discovery Miles 44 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book traces historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter. It provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking across the field. Alongside analysis of monuments to the Holocaust, colonial figures, and LGBTQIA+ subjects, this book provides new critical engagements with the work of D.W. Winnicott, Marion Milner, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, and others. This book traces the potential for monuments to exert great influence over our sense of self, nation, community, sexuality, and place in the world. Explores the psychic and physical spaces these objects occupy-their aesthetics, affects, politics, and powers. The interdisciplinary nature of the book means that it is ideally placed to intervene across several critical fields, particularly museum and heritage studies. It will also prove invaluable to those engaged in the study of monuments, psychoanalytic object relations, decolonization, queer ecology, radical death studies, and affect theory.

Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness - Matter and Mind (Hardcover): Ben Lazare Mijuskovic Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existential Loneliness - Matter and Mind (Hardcover)
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic
R4,194 Discovery Miles 41 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the ages of the Old Testament, the Homeric myths, the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium, the theme of loneliness has dominated and haunted the Western world. In this wide-ranging book, philosopher Ben Lazare Mijuskovic returns us to our rich philosophical past on the nature of consciousness, lived experience, and the pining for a meaningful existence that contemporary social science has displaced in its tendency toward material reduction. Engaging key metaphysical discussions on causality, space, time, subjectivity, the mind body problem, personal identity, freedom, religion, and transcendence in ancient, scholastic, modern, and contemporary philosophy, he highlights the phenomenology of loneliness that lies at the very core of being human. In challenging psychoanalytic and neuroscientific paradigms, Mijuskovic argues that isolative existence and self-consciousness is not so much of a problem of unconscious conflict or the need for psychopharmacology as it is the loss of a sense of personal intimacy. The issue of the criteria of "personal identity" in relation to loneliness has long engaged and consumed the interest of theologians, ethicists, philosophers, novelists and psychologists. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of the humanities, and all those with an interest in the philosophy of loneliness.

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning - Communication and the Marriage of Minds (Hardcover): Timothy Stephen Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning - Communication and the Marriage of Minds (Hardcover)
Timothy Stephen
R4,195 Discovery Miles 41 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many benefits and freedoms, and its mounting social challenges and psycho-emotional impacts. Over time the character of consciousness has shifted in concert with societal trends. The experienced world has become more nuanced, fragmented, and uncertain, as well as increasingly personal and intimate, reshaping social relationships. Chapters analyze the interdependence of language, mind, intimacy, the self, and culture, arguing that as the coevolution of these five factors produced the modern world, many features of contemporary culture have become disruptive to security of being. The book explores the importance to the vital sense of self in constructing relationships based in mutual recognition of moral and intellectual equality between partners. Rich with examples from everyday experience, this text offers profound insights for those interested in sociology, psychoanalysis, psychology, communication, history, and culture.

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning - Communication and the Marriage of Minds (Paperback): Timothy Stephen Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning - Communication and the Marriage of Minds (Paperback)
Timothy Stephen
R1,390 Discovery Miles 13 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many benefits and freedoms, and its mounting social challenges and psycho-emotional impacts. Over time the character of consciousness has shifted in concert with societal trends. The experienced world has become more nuanced, fragmented, and uncertain, as well as increasingly personal and intimate, reshaping social relationships. Chapters analyze the interdependence of language, mind, intimacy, the self, and culture, arguing that as the coevolution of these five factors produced the modern world, many features of contemporary culture have become disruptive to security of being. The book explores the importance to the vital sense of self in constructing relationships based in mutual recognition of moral and intellectual equality between partners. Rich with examples from everyday experience, this text offers profound insights for those interested in sociology, psychoanalysis, psychology, communication, history, and culture.

Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice (Hardcover): Paul Ian Steinberg Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Mental Health Practice (Hardcover)
Paul Ian Steinberg
R4,176 Discovery Miles 41 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is based on 40+ years of experience in clinical practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis and clinical and academic teaching and research. The book reviews some of the authors published articles, written over the last three to four decades, through the eyes of a psychiatrist who has worked in many different clinical venues. A variety of clinical situations are covered, including group psychotherapy, partial hospitalization, and individual psychotherapy, as well as the application of psychoanalytic thought to a non-clinical area.

Sublimation and Superego - Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths (Hardcover): Jared Russell Sublimation and Superego - Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths (Hardcover)
Jared Russell
R4,164 Discovery Miles 41 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book integrates thinking about dilemmas faced in the context of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis today, with contemporary social and political concerns specific to the age of the global consumer marketplace. Beginning with an analysis of the fate of the concept of sublimation in Freud's work, and its relationship to the elaboration of the concept of the superego in 1923, Jared Russell examines how these concepts provide a lever for integrating psychoanalytic thinking with topics of urgent social concern, beyond the critique of ideology. Taking up topics such as the experience of time, addiction to consumption, and the general consequences of the insinuation of digital technologies at increasingly earlier stages in human development-and thinking these through the lens of what the clinical practice of psychoanalysis teaches us about intimate human relatedness-the book addresses how a philosophically oriented approach to psychoanalysis can illuminate our response to the problems of everyday life under conditions of late capitalism. Drawing on a diverse range of authors such as Freud, Heidegger, Hans Loewald, Christopher Bollas, Lacan, Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler, it is argued that the concepts of sublimation and of the superego must be reinvented with regard to both clinical and critical discourse today if psychoanalysis is to remain relevant to the major issues we face, both individually and collectively, in the twenty-first century. Sublimation and Superego: Psychoanalysis Between Two Deaths stages a unique encounter between philosophy, critical theory and clinical practice that will be of interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of twentieth-century continental philosophy, critical social theorists and mental health practitioners.

Psychoanalytic Diaries of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Paperback): Pietro Roberto Goisis, Angelo Antonio Moroni Psychoanalytic Diaries of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Paperback)
Pietro Roberto Goisis, Angelo Antonio Moroni
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Uniquely intimate depiction of psychoanalytic work and experiences during the COVID 19 pandemic. Two authors share personal experiences, including working through the pandemic with clients who have their mental health impacted and also contracting the virus from frontline work.

The Necessary Dream - New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis (Paperback): Giuseppe Civitarese The Necessary Dream - New Theories and Techniques of Interpretation in Psychoanalysis (Paperback)
Giuseppe Civitarese
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

After a hundred years of psychoanalysis what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls the films of our lives still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? What is the meaning of dreams in the analytic dialogue? Do they still have a key role to play in clinical practice or not? These are just some of the questions that this book seeks to answer.Nowadays psychoanalysts and psychotherapsist do not work so much on dreams as with dreams, preferring to emphasize their function of transformation and symbolic creation, rather than decipher their obscure messages. Dreaming is the way in which we give a personal meaning to experience and expand our unconscious. As such, it is a necessary activity which, as Bion says, takes place both in sleep and in waking. But the space of the dream is an inaccessible sanctuary, which can make this task quite frustrating. For this reason the author weaves the dream discourse with that of cinema - according to a famous definition, a dream factory - and cites a number of films to evoke the magic of their images.In this way he explores a new way of approaching the vibrant, exciting, intriguing or distressing material of dreams.

What is Paranormal? - Some Implications for Psychological Therapies (Hardcover): Del Loewenthal What is Paranormal? - Some Implications for Psychological Therapies (Hardcover)
Del Loewenthal
R4,162 Discovery Miles 41 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing more than watered down magic." (Freud) This book provides further developments of such ideas, including Freud's uncanny, Jung's synchronicity, Daniels' transpersonal, Clarke's mindfulness and Sollod's anomalous experiences. The paranormal could be seen as being fundamental to the psychological therapies. Occasionally a writer brings this potential to our attention but questions of science, evidence-based practice, etc. continue to dominate. Yet does this continue to lead to 'what's denied running even more wild'? Further, might the lessening of the paranormal be primarily what is lost, the aura, through the increase in internet therapy? The question of the paranormal and the psychological therapies continues to persist, not only for psychoanalysis but the psychological therapies in general. This book attempts to address that. The chapters in this book, apart from a new introduction and a new chapter, were originally published in the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

When the Body Speaks - A British-Italian Dialogue (Hardcover): Donald Campbell, Ronny Jaffe When the Body Speaks - A British-Italian Dialogue (Hardcover)
Donald Campbell, Ronny Jaffe
R4,182 Discovery Miles 41 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients. The analytical dyad became the focus of a dialectical movement between body and mind and between subject and object. Containing contributions from a range of distinguished British and Italian analysts, this book covers such key topics as somatic symptoms, the embodied unconscious, bodily expressions of affect, sexuality, violence, self-harm, suicide attempts, hypochondria, hysteria, anorexia and bulimia, and splits and fragmentation associated with the body. The theoretical understanding is inspired by various psychoanalytic theoreticians, including Freud, M. Klein, Winnicott and Bion and their theories on sexuality, infantile sexuality, libido, aggressiveness, death instinct, Oedipus complex and mother-child relationship. Offering new advances in theoretical thinking and practical applications for clinical work, this book will be essential for all psychoanalysts and mental health clinicians interested in understanding serious mental disturbance that is represented in the body.

Engaging Currere Toward Decolonization - Negotiating Black Womanhood through Autobiographical Analysis (Hardcover): Shauna Knox Engaging Currere Toward Decolonization - Negotiating Black Womanhood through Autobiographical Analysis (Hardcover)
Shauna Knox; Foreword by William Pinar
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This timely volume uniquely illustrates how currere can be applied to the process of decolonizing subjectivity. Centered around the experiences of one black woman from the third world, the text details the theoretical underpinnings of Currere towards Decolonizing (CTD), and walks the reader through the autobiographical analysis involved in dismantling cognitive colonization. Conceived as a four-part autobiographical process of remembering, identifying, imagining, and decolonizing, the method of CTD is demonstrated as a means of recognizing and reflecting on how the colonial project has been internalized, and of gradually dismantling the psychological, affective, and material impact of colonization. Using both theoretical and experiential standpoints, and intersecting with notions of anti-blackness, linguicide, and Africana womanhood, the volume moves curriculum theory urgently towards anti-colonial mechanisms that disrupt the colonizing process. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in curriculum studies, post-colonialism, and Black studies more broadly. Those specifically interested in interpersonal psychoanalysis, as well as gender and third world studies, will also benefit from this book.

The Jouissance Principle - Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious (Paperback): Christian Fierens The Jouissance Principle - Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious (Paperback)
Christian Fierens
R1,102 Discovery Miles 11 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden pleasure taken by the patient in and from his symptom. Christian Fierens offers a new and rigorous explanation of jouissance as a third principle in the functioning of the unconscious, in addition to the technical and pleasure principles. The Jouissance Principle presents a detailed cross-reading of two key works: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Lacan's paper 'Kant with Sade', explaining how the functioning of the unconscious is a genuinely ethical process. The book also focuses on the role of psychoanalysis in relaunching the functioning of the unconscious, outlining the fourth form of Lacan's object a and its stakes in the psychoanalytic process. An intriguing discussion of the relationship between pleasure, ethics and rationality, The Jouissance Principle will interest scholars of psychoanalysis and European philosophy, as well as helping clinicians to find a practical and ethical pathway through their practice.

The Jouissance Principle - Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious (Hardcover): Christian Fierens The Jouissance Principle - Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious (Hardcover)
Christian Fierens
R4,178 Discovery Miles 41 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden pleasure taken by the patient in and from his symptom. Christian Fierens offers a new and rigorous explanation of jouissance as a third principle in the functioning of the unconscious, in addition to the technical and pleasure principles. The Jouissance Principle presents a detailed cross-reading of two key works: Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Lacan's paper 'Kant with Sade', explaining how the functioning of the unconscious is a genuinely ethical process. The book also focuses on the role of psychoanalysis in relaunching the functioning of the unconscious, outlining the fourth form of Lacan's object a and its stakes in the psychoanalytic process. An intriguing discussion of the relationship between pleasure, ethics and rationality, The Jouissance Principle will interest scholars of psychoanalysis and European philosophy, as well as helping clinicians to find a practical and ethical pathway through their practice.

Treating Autism Today - Lacanian Perspectives (Paperback): Laura Tarsia, Kristina Valendinova Treating Autism Today - Lacanian Perspectives (Paperback)
Laura Tarsia, Kristina Valendinova
R1,104 Discovery Miles 11 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing together an international range of psychoanalytic practitioners, this collection provides a critique of mainstream models of autism, looking at the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of the behavioural and cognitive approaches popular today. The first book to provide a psychoanalytic unpacking of standard non-analytic approaches, it offers a series of critical essays on mainstream assumptions, examining their history, foundations, and validity from a variety of angles. The authors consider, from the Lacanian perspective, the hypothesis of the biological-genetic causality of autism, as well as the claims of these approaches to offer effective therapy. These discussions are historically contextualised by an introduction and afterword that also provide pointers and references to further reading on Lacanian approaches to autism. Illustrated throughout by clinical examples, Treating Autism Today will be of interest to Lacanian clinicians and scholars, as well as psychotherapists, psychologists, and those working with children diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum.

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