Category: Books
by Emmanuel Falque The special role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenology The confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to […]
War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death. Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more necessary than ever, but the fact remains that war and death is only part of […]
This book is an original exploration of the importance in the analytical relationship of an attentiveness to lived, conscious and unconscious experiences of time in its three dimensions. It critically discusses the diverse concepts of time implied in different writings in the psychoanalytic tradition, namely those of Freud, Jung, Klein, Lacan, and Winnicott. Time in […]
Face-to-face with differences in the analytical relationship analysts frequently confront the limitations of their theories. In this new book Mary Lynne Ellis and Noreen O’Connor move to the heart of 21st century intertwining of psychoanalytical and philosophical critical reflections. They highlight how philosophical perspectives on language, embodiment, time, history, and conscious/unconscious experiences can contribute to […]
The relationship between sexuality and psychoanalysis can be described in terms of an old and stormy love affair. The same can be said about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It is precisely this fascinating ‘love triangle’ that the present volume of essays aims to explore. A diverse group of philosophers and psychoanalysts reflected on […]
This book offers the first challenging, systematic, and comprehensive survey of psychoanalytic writings on lesbians and lesbianism available in English. Based on the authors’ clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not inevitably pathologise or universalise all lesbianism. A wide range of psychoanalytic ideas are surveyed, including Freud, […]
Love and knowledge: these two words have guided me for some time in my reading of Lacan. This book presents eleven articles that demonstrate how the problematics of the intertwinement of the the two terms problem could be linked with the discussions around each theme. The texts were written at different times and for different audiences, and […]
Between philosophy and psychoanalysis, there is no correspondence, if by that we mean the harmonious accord of discourses. “Antipathy of discourse,” stated Lacan.However, if we consider the epistolary meaning of the word, we may affirm that there have been correspondences between them – correspondences that are also reciprocal questioning. For psychoanalysts can not ignore what […]
The discovery of the unconscious concerns not only the history of desire and subjectivity, but also the nature and boundaries of truth. In Lacan’s hands, truth works as a kind of limit-concept between clinic and philosophy. Truth is the starting point of a psychoanalytical treatment; but it is not possible to conceive it without resorting […]