Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis: Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political

by A. Gülerce (Editor)

Overview

Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230293755
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/05/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

LISA BRAITSER Feminist writer, a psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK PETER BRANNEY Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Men's Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK STEPHEN FROSH Pro-Vice-Master, Head of the Department of Psychosocial Studies and Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK BRENDAN GOUGH Chair in Social Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK ABE GELDHOF Clinical Psychologist at University of Ghent, Belgium GRAHAME HAYESbased at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa DEREK HOOK Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College and a visiting associate professor in psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa SHANNON KELLY LPC is a psychotherapist, practicing in community mental health in Georgia ANNA MADILL Reader in the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds, UK KAREEN MALONE Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia, USA MANDY MORGAN Associate Professor in Critical Psychology and Head of the School of Psychology at Massey University in Aotearoa, New Zealand CALUM NEILL Lecturer in Critical Psychology at the School of Health & Social Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland BERT OLIVER Professor of Philosophy at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa NARCISA PARADES-CANILAO Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Philippines Baguio IAN PARKER Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK STIJN VANHEULE Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at Ghent University, Belgium

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface x

Notes on Contributors xii

List of Abbreviations xv

Entrance: Contemporary Conditions of (Im)possibility and a Revisionary Meaning Context of Psychoanalysis Aydan Gülerce 1

Invitation: Revisioning Psychoanalysis (The Un/limited Un/conscious) Aydan Gülerce 10

1 Freud's Culture Ian Parker 45

2 The Re-enactment of Denial Stephen Frosh 60

3 Sa loob ang kulo: Speaking the Unconscious in the Transformations of a Filipino Proverb Narcisa Paredes-Canilao 76

4 Beyond Objectivity to Extimité: Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalysis Kareen Ror Malone Shannon D. Kelly 93

5 Knotted Subjectivity: On Lacan's Use of Knot Theory in Building a Non-universal Theory of the Subject Stijn Vanheule Abe Geldhof 114

6 Beyond Identification: The (Im)possibility of Loving thy Neighbour Calum Neill 129

7 Desire in the Time of AIDS Grahame Hayes 146

8 Fanon and Libidinal Economy Derek Hook 164

9 Violent Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa Bert Olivier 184

10 The Violence of an Idealized Family: A Kleinian Psychoanalytic Reading of Te Rito Peter Branney Brendan Gough Anna Madill Mandy Morgan 202

11 Maternal Publics: Time, Relationality and the Public Sphere Lisa Baraitser 221

12 Psychoanalysis and Türban: Self-castrating Objects, or Transformational-Transformative Subject-Objects of Historical Time-Soci(et)al Discourse-Political Imaginary Spheres? Aydan Gülerce 241

Way Out Aydan Gülerce 271

Author Index 274

Subject Index 278