Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan

by Ruth Golan

Overview

Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753792
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2006
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ruth Golan is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and a poet.

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