Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book
suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal
has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a
better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with
our ambivalence, with our hatred, is often a recipe for failure.
Any attempt, therefore, to love our neighbour as ourselves - or
even, for that matter, to love ourselves - must recognise that we
love where we hate and we hate where we love. Psychoanalysis,
beginning with Freud, has claimed that to be in two minds about
something or someone is characteristic of human subjectivity. Owens
and Swales trace the concept of ambivalence through its various
iterations in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to
question how the contemporary subject deals with its ambivalence.
They argue that experiences of ambivalence are, in present-day
cultural life, increasingly excised or foreclosed, and that this
foreclosure has symptomatic effects at the individual as well as
social level. Owens and Swales examine ambivalence as it is at work
in mourning, in matters of sexuality, and in our enjoyment under
neoliberalism and capitalism. Above all, the authors consider how
today's ambivalent subject relates to the racially, religiously,
culturally, or sexually different neighbour as a result of the
current societal dictate of complete tolerance of the other. In
this vein, Owens and Swales argue that ambivalence about one's own
jouissance is at the very roots of xenophobia. Peppered with
relevant and stimulating examples from clinical work, film,
television, politics, and everyday life, Psychoanalysing
Ambivalence breathes new life into an old concept and will appeal
to any reader, academic, or clinician with an interest in
psychoanalytic ideas.
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