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Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language - Clinical Cases on the Edge (Hardcover)
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Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language - Clinical Cases on the Edge (Hardcover)
Series: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series
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This book examines the importance of language and writing in
psychoanalytic theory and practice, offering an understanding of
how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche both
in clinical practice and everyday life. Bringing together
psychoanalytic insights that hinge on the language of "difficult
cases", this collection also includes contributions dedicated to
meta-study of psychoanalytic writing. The first chapter shows how
music includes tonal regions that deploy existing rules and syntax,
alongside atonal ones dominated by caesuras, pauses, and tensions.
The second chapter discusses the malignant ambiguity of revealing
and concealing typical of incestuous situations, pinpointing how
the ambiguous language of incest "deceives by means of the truth,".
The third chapter brings in Virginia Woolf's character Orlando in
order to illustrate two types of gender crossing. Distinctions
defined by the linguist Roman Jakobson help in the fourth chapter
to offer an integrative description of obsessive-compulsive
phenomenon as an interaction between metaphoric and metonymic
dimensions, as well as with a third, psychotic dimension. The fifth
chapter focuses on what is called the "screen confessions" typical
of the perpetrator's language. George Orwell's "newspeak" is used
here to decipher the specific means by which the perpetrator turns
his or her "inner witness" into a blind one. The final chapter uses
Roland Barthes' concepts of "studium" and "punctum" to discuss the
limits of psychoanalytic writing. As a whole, this book sets the
psychoanalytic importance of language in a wider understanding of
how language helps to shape and even create internal as well as the
external world. Drawing on insights from psychoanalytic theory and
practice, as well as from linguistics and cultural theory, this
book will be invaluable for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic
psychotherapists and bibliotherapists, as well as anyone interested
in how language forms our reality.
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