Freud’s ideas on infantile sexuality can only be understood as constructions that are necessary to understand the psychopathological formations of adults. These constructions of infantile sexuality, therefore, must not be considered to be speculations about infant behaviour as such, because in infancy sexuality is obviously a rather marginal problem, and because, consequently, only their nachträglich […]
Category: Figures of the unconscious
The concept of fetishism has long been a window through which philosophers, psychoanalysts and cultural anthropologists have looked in order to critically examine the nature of beliefs, sexual interests and material values, and it remains today a vital interpretive paradigm. The enduring interest in fetishism gives testimony to the fact that its status and significance […]
Long-expected translation of the Portuguese academic bestseller Grande Hotel AbismoIn the last two decades recognition – arguably one of the most central notions of the dialectical tradition since Hegel – has once again become a crucial philosophical theme. Nevertheless, the new theories of recognition fail to provide room for reflection on transformation processes in politics and […]
Edited by Jozef Corveleyn, Patrick Luyten, and Sidney J. Blatt Recent research indicates that depression, once believed to be a relatively benign disorder, is a highly recurrent disorder which does not respond well to treatment. This book brings together the latest thinking and research concerning depression, including epidemiological, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, developmental psychopathological, and neurobiological approaches, […]
Edited by Jens De Vleminck and Eran Dorfman 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 […]
Edited by Ray Brassier and Christian Kerslake Psychoanalysis claims that the individual human mind is structured by its childhood relationships with its parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently re-introduced new dimensions of innateness into mental development and pathology. If attachment is an instinct, then what […]
Thamy Ayouch Le discours psychanalytique aux sujets non majoritaires, minorisés et altérisés Le genre, la langue et l’ethnicité sont souvent les catégories aveugles de certains discours psychanalytiques prétendant se déployer depuis la position, non située, de l’universel. La psychanalyse n’a toutefois pas pour vocation d’assigner des normes, ni au genres et sexualités, ni aux différences […]
Edited by Daniela Finzi and Herman Westerink and contributions by Daniela Finzi, Rachel B. Blass, Beatriz Santos, Philippe Van Haute, Herman Westerink, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ulrike Kadi, Ilka Quindeau, and Esther Hutfless Freud’s Dora case and contemporary debates on gender, sexuality and queer theory‘Dora’ is one the most important and interesting case studies Sigmund Freud […]