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A Child Is Being Killed - On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive (Hardcover): Serge Leclaire A Child Is Being Killed - On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive (Hardcover)
Serge Leclaire; Translated by Marie-Claude Hays
R1,949 Discovery Miles 19 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls "primary narcissism," a projection of the child our parents wanted. This idea--that each of us carries as a burden an unconscious secret of our parents, a hidden desire that we are made to live out but that we must kill in order to "be born"--touches on some of the fundamental issues of psychoanalytic theory. Around it, the author builds an intricate analysis of the relation between primary narcissism and the death drive.
Each of the book's five chapters begins with one or more case studies drawn from the author's clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concern--the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents--to other issues, such as the question of love, the concept of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding of the analyst's impassivity. What does such impassivity imply, especially in the context of a "transferential love" between a female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question, the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to femininity, to the question "What does a woman want?"
Serge Leclaire's overarching thesis leads to a provocative rereading of the Oedipal configuration. Leclaire suggests that he is inhabited, pursued, haunted, and debilitated by the child who should have died in order that Oedipus might have been born into life.

A Child Is Being Killed - On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive (Paperback): Serge Leclaire A Child Is Being Killed - On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive (Paperback)
Serge Leclaire; Translated by Marie-Claude Hays
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R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls "primary narcissism," a projection of the child our parents wanted. This idea--that each of us carries as a burden an unconscious secret of our parents, a hidden desire that we are made to live out but that we must kill in order to "be born"--touches on some of the fundamental issues of psychoanalytic theory. Around it, the author builds an intricate analysis of the relation between primary narcissism and the death drive.
Each of the book's five chapters begins with one or more case studies drawn from the author's clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concern--the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents--to other issues, such as the question of love, the concept of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding of the analyst's impassivity. What does such impassivity imply, especially in the context of a "transferential love" between a female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question, the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to femininity, to the question "What does a woman want?"
Serge Leclaire's overarching thesis leads to a provocative rereading of the Oedipal configuration. Leclaire suggests that he is inhabited, pursued, haunted, and debilitated by the child who should have died in order that Oedipus might have been born into life.

Psychoanalyzing - On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Paperback, First): Serge Leclaire Psychoanalyzing - On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Paperback, First)
Serge Leclaire; Translated by Peggy Kamuf
R605 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R67 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, and yet hardly any theoretical discourse is more widely misunderstood and abused. In "Psychoanalyzing," Serge Leclaire offers a thorough and lucid exposition of the psychoanalysis that has emerged from the French "return to Freud," unfolding and elaborating the often enigmatic pronouncements of Jacques Lacan and patiently working through the central tenets of the "Ecole freudienne." As a concise but nuanced introduction to the subject, "Psychoanalyzing" will prove indispensable to anyone interested in psychoanalysis, especially those curious about its Lacanian reconceptualization and the linguistic theory of the unconscious and its effects.
Leclaire's study is particularly valuable for the way its author links theoretical issues to psychoanalytic practice. The opening chapter--on listening--highlights the necessity, and the impossibility, of the "floating attention" required from the analyst, while preparing the reader for the following chapters, which deal with such topics as unconscious desire, how to speak of the body, and the intrication of the object and the "letter" (i.e. the signifier, the "material support that concrete discourse borrows from language"). The final chapter--on transference--shows how the analytical dialogue differs from other dialogues.
Despite the intricacy of its subject matter, the book takes very little for granted. It does not simplify the issues it presents, but does not assume a reader familiar with the concepts of psychoanalysis, let alone a reader acquainted with its French inflection. Each basic concept and term is carefully explained, so that the reader knows the meaning of "transference" or "primal scene" before proceeding to more advanced elements of psychoanalysis. Leclaire's text is not intended merely to be "user friendly"; its purpose is to clarify and advance, rather than to impress or convert.

Psychoanalyzing - On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Hardcover): Serge Leclaire Psychoanalyzing - On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Hardcover)
Serge Leclaire; Translated by Peggy Kamuf
R2,269 R2,049 Discovery Miles 20 490 Save R220 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, and yet hardly any theoretical discourse is more widely misunderstood and abused. In "Psychoanalyzing," Serge Leclaire offers a thorough and lucid exposition of the psychoanalysis that has emerged from the French "return to Freud," unfolding and elaborating the often enigmatic pronouncements of Jacques Lacan and patiently working through the central tenets of the "Ecole freudienne." As a concise but nuanced introduction to the subject, "Psychoanalyzing" will prove indispensable to anyone interested in psychoanalysis, especially those curious about its Lacanian reconceptualization and the linguistic theory of the unconscious and its effects.
Leclaire's study is particularly valuable for the way its author links theoretical issues to psychoanalytic practice. The opening chapter--on listening--highlights the necessity, and the impossibility, of the "floating attention" required from the analyst, while preparing the reader for the following chapters, which deal with such topics as unconscious desire, how to speak of the body, and the intrication of the object and the "letter" (i.e. the signifier, the "material support that concrete discourse borrows from language"). The final chapter--on transference--shows how the analytical dialogue differs from other dialogues.
Despite the intricacy of its subject matter, the book takes very little for granted. It does not simplify the issues it presents, but does not assume a reader familiar with the concepts of psychoanalysis, let alone a reader acquainted with its French inflection. Each basic concept and term is carefully explained, so that the reader knows the meaning of "transference" or "primal scene" before proceeding to more advanced elements of psychoanalysis. Leclaire's text is not intended merely to be "user friendly"; its purpose is to clarify and advance, rather than to impress or convert.

Psicoanalizar. Un Ensayo Sobre El Orden del Inconsciente y La Practica de La Letra (Spanish, Paperback, 4th ed.): Serge Leclaire Psicoanalizar. Un Ensayo Sobre El Orden del Inconsciente y La Practica de La Letra (Spanish, Paperback, 4th ed.)
Serge Leclaire
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Concept and Form, Volume 1 - Selections from the 'Cahiers pour l'Analyse' (Paperback): Knox Peden, Peter Hallward Concept and Form, Volume 1 - Selections from the 'Cahiers pour l'Analyse' (Paperback)
Knox Peden, Peter Hallward; Contributions by Alain Badiou, Alain Grosrichard, Francois Regnault, …
R740 R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the editors of the Cahiers sought to sever philosophy from the interpretation of given meanings or experiences, focusing instead on the mechanisms that structure specific configurations of discourse, from the psychological and ideological to the literary, scientific, and political. Adequate analysis of the operations at work in these configurations, they argue, helps prepare the way for their revolutionary transformation. This first volume comprises English translations of some of the most important theoretical texts published in the journal, written by thinkers who would soon be counted among the most inventive and influential of their generation: Alain Badiou, Yves Duroux, Alain Grosrichard, Serge Leclaire, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jean-Claude Milner, and Francois Regnault. The book is complemented by a second volume, consisting of essays and interviews that assess the significance and legacy of the journal, and by an online edition of the full set of original Cahiers texts, produced by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London and accessible at cahiers.kingston.ac.uk.

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