Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of ...psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the twentieth century.
Where others seeking the political import of psychoanalysis have looked to Freud's early work on sexuality, McGowan focuses on Freud's discovery of the death drive and Jacques Lacan's elaboration of this concept. He argues that the self-destruction occurring as a result of the death drive is the foundational act of emancipation around which we should construct our political philosophy. Psychoanalysis offers the possibility for thinking about emancipation not as an act of overcoming loss but as the embrace of loss. It is only through the embrace of loss, McGowan suggests, that we find the path to enjoyment, and enjoyment is the determinative factor in all political struggles-and only in a political project that embraces the centrality of loss will we find a viable alternative to global capitalism.
For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser
have won him a vast and admiring audience across several
disciplines. Best known for his work on social movements, economic
sociology, ...and British social history, Smelser's psychoanalytic
writings are less familiar to his readers. In fact, many people are
completely unaware of Smelser's formal psychoanalytic training and
ongoing counseling practice. With the publication of The Social
Edges of Psychoanalysis , Smelser's thought-provoking essays on
psychoanalytic concepts are finally brought together in one book.
Psychoanalytic theory has had an ambivalent relationship with
sociology, and these essays explore that ambivalence, providing
arguments about how and why psychoanalytic approaches can deepen
the sociological perspective. One of Smelser's main tenets is that
human social behavior always contains both social-structural and
social-psychological elements, and that psychoanalytic theory can
bridge these two dimensions of human social life. Many of the
issues Smelser addresses-including interdisciplinarity, the
macro-micro link in research, masculinity and violence, and
affirmative action-have generated considerable scholarly interest.
This collection paves the way for further articulation of the
relationship between sociology and psychoanalysis at a time when
many sociologists are looking for interdisciplinary links in their
work. Presented with clarity and grace, and free of the murkiness
often found in both sociological and psychoanalytic writing,
Smelser's new book will excite reflection and research on the less
visible dynamics of social existence.
We know that the deepest disturbances must be reached to foster the deepest changes and growth. But what do we do when some of our patients suffer relentlessly through dissociated, dysregulated ...states of catastrophic proportons, when these states are repetitive but not generative, when our psychoanalytic forms of holding, provision, and containment are just not good enough? After a number of years in psychoanalytic practice, the author trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE), a non-psychoanalytic, bio-psychological model for treating trauma. He presents a psychotherapy case that began before his SE training and continued during and after. He illustrates how SE perspectives and approaches can inform and enrich our psychoanalytic ways of looking, listening, and responding. He emphasizes how SE can supplement and enfold into psychoanalytic processes of intersubjective regulation, crucial for patients who are exquisitely vulnerable to severe overactivation (overwhelming anxiety, panic, terror, agitation, rage, explosiveness, etc.) and/or underactivation (freeze, numbness, emptiness, deadness, etc.). He discusses the relationship between SE and major psychoanalytic paradigms (Classical, Kleinian, Winnicottian, Relational, and Self Psychology), looking at points of convergence, divergence, synergy and tension. He shares a professional and personal journey of interweaving SE into psychoanalytic treatment.
The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis explores the social unconscious in persons, groups and societies in terms of the "un-acknowledged" restraints ...and constraints of our social and cultural groupings.
In this context, Earl Hopper and an international team of contributors elucidate the theory and concept of the tripartite matrix as a tool for the deeper understanding of the human condition and for clinical work in various settings. They consider topics ranging from envy to intersectionality, and from addiction to the inability to mourn.
The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis will be of great interest to group analysts, psychoanalytical group therapists, psychoanalysts and psycho-dramatists, as well as to social scientists more generally. Its extensive bibliography will be of particular value to students.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Here I'm Alive Blum, Adam; Goldberg, Peter; Levin, Michael
2023, 2023-03-28
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Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how ...music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture.
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