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The Savage Eye (Hardcover)
Lars Toft-Eriksen; Edited by Kate Bell; Text written by Emil Leth Meilvang, Allison Morehead, Gavin Parkinson, …
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From its peculiar birth in Freud s self-analysis to its current
state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice
that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk
themselves in this act it is somehow upon this threatened ground
that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps
psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly,
position at the limit of life and death?Jamieson Webster argues
that the life and death of psychoanalysis hinges on the question of
desire itself, bringing this question back to the center of
psychoanalytic theory and practice. Pursued through her own
relation to the field, she recounts the story of her training
through the interpretation of three significant dreams, as well as
her encounter with three thinkers for whom the problem of
psychoanalysis remains crucial: Adorno, Lacan, and Badiou. In
blurring the line between the personal and the theoretical, this
book explores how one, through the difficult work of transference
and reading, can live out the life of desire that tests the very
limits of what it means to be human."
The author believes the discovery of psychoanalysis cannot be
separated from Freud's self-analysis and the foundational act of
writing about his own dreams. Now that the hype, the 100 years of
excitement and building up of the institution of psychoanalysis, is
in decline, the time seems ripe for a return to the question of the
truth of the discover
Conversion disorder-a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic
transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations-offers
a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from
unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to
pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men
and women seemingly willing to direct violence toward anybody,
including themselves-a radical disordering in culture insists on
the level of the body. Part memoir, part clinical case, part
theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Is it a
psychopathological entity; a crossroads for the cultural,
political, and biological in the form of care; or the foundation of
psychoanalytic work on the question of sexuality? Jamieson Webster
traces conversion's shifting meanings-in religious, economic, and
even chemical processes-revisiting the work of thinkers as diverse
as Benjamin, Foucault, Agamben, and Lacan. She provides an intimate
account of her own conversion from patient to psychoanalyst, as
well as her continuing struggle to apprehend the complexities of
the patient's body. When listening to dreams, symptoms, worries, or
sexual impasses, the body becomes a defining trope that belies a
vulnerable and urgent wish for transformation. Conversion Disorder
names what is singular about the entanglement of the fractured body
and the social world in order to imagine what kind of cure is
possible.
Conversion disorder-a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic
transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations-offers
a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from
unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to
pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men
and women seemingly willing to direct violence toward anybody,
including themselves-a radical disordering in culture insists on
the level of the body. Part memoir, part clinical case, part
theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Is it a
psychopathological entity; a crossroads for the cultural,
political, and biological in the form of care; or the foundation of
psychoanalytic work on the question of sexuality? Jamieson Webster
traces conversion's shifting meanings-in religious, economic, and
even chemical processes-revisiting the work of thinkers as diverse
as Benjamin, Foucault, Agamben, and Lacan. She provides an intimate
account of her own conversion from patient to psychoanalyst, as
well as her continuing struggle to apprehend the complexities of
the patient's body. When listening to dreams, symptoms, worries, or
sexual impasses, the body becomes a defining trope that belies a
vulnerable and urgent wish for transformation. Conversion Disorder
names what is singular about the entanglement of the fractured body
and the social world in order to imagine what kind of cure is
possible.
A luxurious, richly illustrated monograph, Piotr Uklanski Fatal
Attraction consists of images of works made by Piotr Ukla?ski, as
well as groupings of images of artworks selected by Ukla?ski from
the Met's collections for an accompanying exhibition. Both
exhibitions are based on the classical themes of love and death.
Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us than
Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Everyone can quote at least six
words from the play; often people know many more. In this riveting
and thought-provoking re-examination, philosopher Simon Critchley
and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster explore Hamlet's continued
relevance for a modern world no less troubled by existential
anxieties than Elizabethan London. Reading the drama alongside
writers, philosophers and psychoanalysts-Schmitt, Benjamin, Freud,
Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce-the authors delve into the
politics of the era, the play's relationship to religion, the
exigencies of desire and the incapacity to love. It is an
intellectual investigation that leads to a startling conclusion:
Hamlet is a play about nothing in which Ophelia emerges as the true
hero. From the illusion of theatre and the spectacle of statecraft
to the psychological theatre of inhibition and emotion, what Hamlet
makes manifest is the modern paradox of our lives: where we know,
we cannot act. The Hamlet Doctrine is a passionate encounter with a
great work of literature that continues to speak to us across
centuries.
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him.
Arguably, no literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to
us than Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Everyone knows at least six words
from the play; often people know many more. Yet the
play--Shakespeare's longest--is more than "passing strange" and
becomes deeply unfamiliar when considered closely. Reading Hamlet
alongside other writers, philosophers, and psychoanalysts--Carl
Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and
Joyce--Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster consider the political
context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion,
the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love.
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