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Persecution and Morality - Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Persecution and Morality - Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in
an ethical obligation to the other. Persecution is functionally
defined here as an impinging, affective relation that is not
mediated by reason. It focuses on the works and personal lives of
Emmanuel Levinas-a phenomenological ethicist who understood
persecution as an ontological condition for human existence-and
Sigmund Freud, the inventor of psychoanalysis who proposed that a
demanding superego is a persecuting psychological mechanism that
enables one to sadistically enjoy moral injunctions. Scholarship on
the work of Freud and Levinas remains critical about their
objectivity, but this book uses the phenomenological method to
bracket this concern with objective truth and instead reconstruct
their historical biographies to evaluate their hyperbolically
opposing claims. By doing so, it is suggested that moral actions
and relations of persecution in their personal lives illuminate the
epistemic limits that they argued contribute to the psychological
and ontological necessity of persecuting behaviors. Object
relations and intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis
successfully incorporate meaningful elements from both of their
theoretical works, which is used to develop an intentionality of
search that is sensitive to an unknowable, relational, and
existentially vulnerable ethical subjectivity. Details from Freud's
and Levinas' works and lives, on the proclivity to use persecution
to achieve moral ends, provide significant ethical warnings, and
the author uses them as a strategy for developing the reader's
intentionality of search, to reflect on when they may use
persecuting means for moral ends. The interdisciplinary nature of
this research monograph is intended for academics, scholars, and
researchers who are interested in psychoanalysis, moral philosophy,
and phenomenology. Comparisons between various psychoanalytic
frameworks and Levinas' ethic will also interest scholars who work
on the relation between psychoanalysis and The Other. Levinas
scholars will value the convergences between his ethics and Freud's
moral skepticism; likewise, readers will be interested in the
extension of Levinas' intentionality of search. The book is useful
for undergraduate or graduate courses on literary criticism and
critical theories worldwide.
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