Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan

by Ruth Golan

Overview

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain, anxieties and physical symptoms led him to formulate his theories on the existence of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is neither a theory nor a way of seeing life. It is a form of ethics unlike any othe

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367325473
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction: psychoanalysis and language-getting to know Lacan — Love, Phantasy — What can we know of love? — Phantasy-from Freud to Lacan and from Lacan to the artist — Jouissance, Woman — Paul Celan and the question of feminine jouissance — One eats-the other eats "no" — "A woman's voice is erva": the feminine voice and silence-between the Talmudic sages and psychoanalysis — Testimony — The secret bearers-from silence to testimony, from the Real to phantasme — Art, Letter — The letter as place and the place of the letter — The Act in psychoanalysis and art — The return of Orpheus-a psychoanalytic view on realism in contemporary art — Death, Entropy — True grace-the blood is the soul — There is no such form-Arbeit macht frei — Myth and Act on the crater's edge — Evolution — Is interpretation possible? — About narrow-mindedness and the Real — Eppur si muove!-nevertheless, it does move