Posttraumatic Joy - A Seminar on Nietzsche’s Tragicomic Philosophy of Life (Hardcover)

Posttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzsche’s corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic perspective with a particular bent toward how they might illuminate ways of coping with and living beyond trauma and suffering. Through a series of transcribed and edited lectures—originally delivered as a part of the "Nietzsche for Clinicians" workshop run through the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College—this work traces the genesis of such fundamental psychoanalytic concepts as repression, the death drive, and the Oedipus complex to the works of one of philosophy’s most audacious and original thinkers. Reading Nietzsche not as a philosopher in the traditional sense, but as a proto-psychoanalyst, a precursor to Freud and Lacan, this work explores his understanding of the origins of morality, the value of sublimation, the movement from mourning to melancholia—or, in Nietzsche’s terms, from trauma to tragedy—and the possibility of a life lived in affirmation and self-overcoming. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners whose work intersects with continental philosophy and theoretical and philosophical psychology. This includes any psychotherapist, social worker, psychoanalyst, or pastoral counselor with an interest in understanding the deeply psychological philosophy of one of history’s greatest thinkers.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Release date:	April 2023
Authors:	Matthew Clemente
Editors:	Andrew J. Zeppa
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	72
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-239196-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > Trauma & shock Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	1-03-239196-0
Barcode:	9781032391960

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