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Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory.Raul Moncayo examines Lacan's notion of surplus jouissance in relation to four types of socio-economic value: Productive Value, Exchange Value, Surplus Value, and Profit. Also drawing on the work of Slavoj Žižek, Moncayo contends that surplus production cannot be reduced to alienated labor but rather includes various levels of jouissance-value. In this way, the jouissance that drives capitalization and organization can be theorized as constructive rather than destructive and encompass satisfaction and prosperity rather than individual suffering and asceticism or living with less.This volume will be of great interest to psychoanalysts both in practice and in training and to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, Lacanian studies, and social sciences.

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!This book argues that the notion of ‘wild'analysis, a term coined by Freud to denote the use of would-be psychoanalytic notions, diagnoses, and treatment by an individual who has not undergone psychoanalytic training, also provides us with a striking new way of exploring the limits of psychoanalysis. Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life proposes to reopen the question of so-called ‘wild'analysis by exploring psychoanalytic ideas at their limits, arguing from a diverse range of perspectives that the thinking produced at these limits – where psychoanalysis strays into other disciplines, and vice versa, as well as moments of impasse in its own theoretical canon – points toward new futures for both psychoanalysis and the humanities. The book's twelve essays pursue fault lines, dissonances and new resonances in established psychoanalytic theory, often by moving its insights radically further afield. These essays take on sensitive and difficult topics in twentieth-century cultural and political life, including representations of illness, forced migration and the experiences of refugees, and questions of racial identity and identification in post-war and post-apartheid periods, as well as contemporary debates surrounding the Enlightenment and its modern invocations, the practice of critique and ‘paranoid'reading. Others explore more acute cases of ‘wilding', such as models of education and research informed by the insights of psychoanalysis, or instances where psychoanalysis strays into taboo political and cultural territory, as in Freud's references to cannibalism.This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and students working across the fields of psychoanalysis, history, literature, culture and politics, and to anyone with an interest in the political import of psychoanalytic thought today.

Critical theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings critical theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the psychoanalytic movement and covers a broad range of topics in contemporary society that revisit the Frankfurt School and its contributions to psychoanalytic social critique.Theoretical, clinical, and applied investigations in social pathology are explored in relation to new directions in critical cultural discourse from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. In this volume, internationally acclaimed social political theorists, philosophers, psychoanalysts, cultural critics, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics.Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis will be of interest to philosophers, psychoanalysts, political scientists, cultural theorists, sociologists, psychologists, religious studies, academe, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences.

Este libro en su conjunto parte de la idea de que el psicoanálisis es más que una teoría de la mente y una clínica para el tratamiento de afecciones nerviosas. Desde nuestra lectura, es también una crítica a la cultura. Así, debe intervenir en el discurso y en las prácticas sociales que instrumentan y ejercen violencia para denunciarlas y resistirlas. Los autores de esta compilación consideramos que, más allá de las malas, irresponsables y nihilistas lecturas que se han hecho de la obra de Sigmund Freud, es quehacer de la reflexión psicoanalítica construir argumentos fuertes que deconstruyan la ontologización de la pulsión de muerte. Por lo tanto, nos interesa hacer una crítica de la violencia al tiempo que queremos mostrar los caminos que abren el horizonte para la construcción de organizaciones sociales complejas y, sí, tensas, pero en las que el lazo social se torna indispensable y deseable mas no amenazante de la seguridad e identidad de una comunidad.

Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics examines the world using a systemic and psychoanalytic lens, including concepts of splitting, separation, projection, displacement, and the return of the repressed. They consider what impact the disappearance of some iconic and psychic containers has on individuals'functioning and why we choose populist leaders to shore up our own social defences. They question why the world feels so threatening to the twenty-first-century linked-in citizens when the objective facts suggest that overall much is improving for the global citizen. Building on their previous work, Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee have created a coherent framework in order to conceptualise global dynamics within a matrix form. The matrix contains dialectic dynamic forces for both good and evil, love and hate, creation and destruction. They take a closer look at the plethora of phenomena which they see arising therein. Whilst the matrix holds steady, inside it is a world in constant flux, reconfiguring and rearranging itself, as if in a kaleidoscope, with inevitable and unavoidable turbulence, but - Brunning and Khaleelee hypothesise - with an underlying pattern that is available to be discerned and studied. Aware of this turbulence, Brunning and Khaleelee wish to share their view of the world in the hope of offering a containing reflection, capable of calming the nerves of the readers as well as their own.

By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic development studies.Drawing from the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, as well as from psychoanalytic postcolonial and feminist scholarship, Kapoor analyzes how development's unconscious desires'speak out,'most often in excessive and unpredictable ways that contradict the outwardly rational declarations of its practitioners. He investigates development's many irrationalities—from obsessions about growth and poverty to the perverse seductions of racism and over-consumption. By deploying key psychoanalytic concepts—enjoyment, fantasy, antagonism, fetishism, envy, drive, perversion, and hysteria—Confronting Desire critically analyzes important issues in development—growth, poverty, inequality, participation, consumption, corruption, gender,'race,'LGBTQ politics, universality, and revolution. Confronting Desire offers prescriptions for applying psychoanalysis to development theory and practice and demonstrates how psychoanalysis can provide fertile ground for radical politics and the transformation of international development.

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality examines the links between race, gender, and sexuality through the dual perspectives of relational psychoanalysis and the theory of intersectionality.This anthology discusses the ways in which clinicians and patients inadvertently reproduce experiences of privilege and marginalization in the consulting room. Focusing particularly on the experiences of immigrants, women of color, sex workers, and LGBTQ individuals, the contributing authors explore how similarities and differences between the patient's and analyst's gender, race, and sexual orientation can be acknowledged, challenged, and negotiated. Combining intersectional theory with relational psychoanalytic thought, the authors introduce a number of thought-provoking clinical vignettes to suggest how adopting an intersectional approach can help us navigate the space between pathology and difference in psychotherapy. By bringing together these new psychoanalytically-informed perspectives on clinical work with minority and marginalized individuals, Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis makes an important contribution to psychoanalysis, psychology, and social work.

La question de ce qui fait l'humain concerne la réalité psychique subjective et singulière en même temps que la réalité sociale culturelle humaine. Ce manque d'articulation avec des disciplines telles que l'ethnologie et la linguistique explique le désintérêt du public face à la psychanalyse. Elle ne peut rester en dehors de la construction des sciences sociales. Cet ouvrage souhaite contribuer au remaniement profond de la psychanalyse en l'actualisant, grâce aux pratiques et aux sciences sociales.

This edited volume challenges our negative and incorrect definitions of psychoanalysis by focusing on the notion that psychoanalysis once was, and can once again be, a movement for social justice. Taking the work of Erich Fromm as a guide, the chapters in this volume highlight psychoanalysis'social justice origins, while illustrating how psychoanalysis – in both an interpretive role and as a clinical tool – can improve our understanding of contemporary social problems and address the effects of those problems within the clinical setting.

Die Kooperation von Soziologie und Psychoanalyse ist wichtig, weil dadurch soziologische Analysen mit einem systematischen Verständnis manifester und latenter Psychodynamik verbunden werden können. Trotz der langen Geschichte dieser Kooperation sind die theoretischen und methodischen Probleme noch nicht befriedigend gelöst und die Möglichkeiten der Zusammenarbeit noch lange nicht ausgeschöpft. In ausgewählten Texten analysiert Johann August Schülein einerseits die theoretischen und methodologischen Aspekte der Verbindung dieser Wissenschaften, andererseits verdeutlicht er, wie soziologische Mittel mit psychoanalytischen Perspektiven optimiert und soziale Themen mithilfe psychoanalytischer Mittel besser verstanden werden können. Die Texte dienen der Weiterentwicklung eines gemeinsamen Diskurses beider Disziplinen und zeigen, wie die so gewonnenen Möglichkeiten aussehen können.

Die Psychoanalyse hat sich – wie die Sozialwissenschaft – zu einer Wissenschaft entwickelt, in der es um Verstehen in einem umfassenden Sinn geht. Dieses Verstehen kann nur durch die Einbeziehung des historischen und soziokulturellen Standpunkts erzielt werden, der die psychoanalytische und sozialwissenschaftliche Erkenntnis leitet. Im Spannungsfeld von Psychoanalyse und Sozialwissenschaften beleuchten die Autorinnen und Autoren kreative, narrative, biografische und soziokulturelle Aspekte der deutschen Geschichte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und untersuchen ihren Einfluss auf die Konzeptualisierung von Subjektivität und Verstehen. Dabei werden themenadäquate psychoanalytische Forschungsmethoden ebenso betrachtet wie sozialwissenschaftliche Ansätze. Mit Beiträgen von Brigitte Boothe, Ludwig Drees, Jörg Frommer, Uta Gerhardt, Jürgen Körner, Susanne Metzner, Ronald Mitnick, Marion M. Oliner, David L. Rennie, Wolfgang Tress, Andrzej Werbart und Léon Wurmser

Un saggio scritto a quattro mani, frutto dell'incontro tra Zygmunt Bauman, uno dei più importanti pensatori contemporanei, e Gustavo Dessal, famoso psicoanalista. Il dialogo tra i due prende avvio dall'intersezione tra psicoanalisi e sociologia, muovendo dall'eredità di Freud. Ne risulta una conversazione che non si limita all'analisi delle affinità tra i due campi del sapere, ma diventa l'esempio di quanto può essere produttiva la dialettica tra discipline per analizzare e restituire la complessità e le aporie del contemporaneo. Nonostante, infatti, libertà e sicurezza non possano vivere l'una senza l'altra ma nemmeno convivere in equilibrio, gli uomini continueranno per sempre a ricercarne il punto di sintesi, un punto impossibile da trovare se non nel movimento oscillatorio del pendolo, il quale ripercorre la stessa traiettoria diverse volte e in versi opposti. Esattamente come qualsiasi ricerca della verità e del sapere può e deve essere: pendolare e infinita.

This book argues for the value and application of psychoanalytic thinking beyond, as well as within, the consulting room. Inspired by a Scottish psychoanalytic tradition that owes much to W.R.D. Fairbairn and J.D. Sutherland, the Scottish Institute of Human Relations has provided a valuable reference point for the work described in the book. It illustrates how the coming together of human beings into a shared space fosters opportunities to create loving, collaborative relationships in which to work and from which to grow. The book's first section explores how psychoanalytic thinking developed in Scotland, while section two focuses on work with children, families and couples, showing how psychoanalytic perspectives can be used to strengthen capacities for loving relationships. The chapters in section three show how psychoanalysis can be applied in such varied settings as psycho-social research, education, institutional development and organisational consultancy. The fourth section pursues this theme further, considering the potential of psychoanalytic concepts to enhance work in religious ministry, in medical and psychiatric services, and in understanding the processes of ageing.

Managers are confronted with many difficult demands which are still unknown to them. Gaining a better knowledge for unconscious ways of human behavior and their motivations is very important. This book introduces research work to European readers by selected contributions from leading psychoanalytically oriented management theorists and clinicians. The authors deal with different topics such as leadership, corporate culture, family business, organizational stress, career dynamics and so on. All of them try to win an understanding and insight into conscious, unconscious, rational and irrational behavior. The purpose of this book is fulfilled if this knowledge can be practiced in order to achieve improvements for the cooperation between people in general.

Since the publication of Self Experiences in Group in 1998—the first book to apply self psychology and intersubjectivity to group work—there have been tremendous advancements in the areas of affect, attachment, infant research, intersubjective regulation, motivational theory, neurobiology, philosophy, somatic understanding, and trauma.Carefully edited by Irene Harwood, Walter Stone, and Malcolm Pines, Self Experiences in Group, Revisited is a completely revised and updated application of self-psychological and intersubjective perspectives to couples, family, and group work, incorporating many of these recent findings and theories of the past decade. Divided into five sections, the contributors take an updated approach to the prenate and neonate in group; couples and the family in group; group theory, technique, and application; working with trauma; and group processes and artistic applications.Throughout, the reader is engaged in affectively understanding what is experienced by individuals in the regulation and dysregulation of self as part of the interpersonal relating, learning, and change that can occur in groups.Contributors: Mary Dluhy, Barbara Feld, Darryl Feldman, Vivian Gold, Irene Harwood, Gloria Batkin Kahn, Joseph Lichtenberg, Louisa Livingston, Marty Livingston, Jane van Loon, Judy McLaughlin-Ryan, Malcolm Pines, John Schlapobersky, Robert Schulte, Rosemary Segalla, Emanuel Shapiro, Walter Stone, Paula Thomson

This book analyses a range of ubiquitous phenomena that make up our daily lives and to ask, not so much whether psychoanalytic thinking can add to our existing understanding of these phenomena, but what it can add. It deals with work issues independently of each other.

Sous couvert du Progrès entendu comme la quête du Bien, le sujet de la parole est de plus en plus muselé par un discours hégémonique : le discours scientifique, technologique et marchand. Colonisé par les exigences néolibérales (rendement, productivité, efficacité, évaluation, etc.), l'auteur interroge ce qu'un tel discours implique dès lors qu'il place l'argent au centre des préoccupations, n'accordant d'importance qu'aux profits réalisés par une minorité au détriment de l'intérêt général.

The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and our social environment; and the distinctive and intense observation of individual psychical structuring afforded within clinical psychoanalysis has given rise to rich theoretical and methodological resources for doing just this. However, psychoanalytic concepts do not remain the same when they are rearticulated in the context of research. This book traces the reiteration and transformation of concepts in the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, Klein and Lacan, the social theory of Butler, Derrida, Foucault, Laclau and Zizek, and case studies of empirical research ranging from the classic Tavistock Institute studies to contemporary work in politics, gender studies, cultural studies and education. Each chapter explores one cluster of concepts: Melancholia, loss and subjectivity Overdetermination and free association Resistance, reflexivity and the compulsion to repeat Repression, disavowal and foreclosure Psychic defenses and social defenses Arguing against the reification of psychoanalytic concepts, Claudia Lapping suggests the need for a reflexive understanding of the play of attachments and substitutions as concepts are reframed in the contrasting activities of psychoanalysis and research.

More than a hundred years after its founding, psychoanalysis remains influential and controversial far outside its core sphere of activity in the'clinic'. In a wide range of cultural and social disciplines, psychoanalytic ideas are drawn on to explain human subjectivity and its relationship with the social world.This lucid and engaging book explores these interventions through detailed examination of how psychoanalytic ideas apply in literature, politics, social psychology, philosophy and psychosocial studies. The highly-regarded and influential author, Stephen Frosh, shows how psychoanalysis can at times greatly illuminate these fields of study, and how at other times it might misread them. He also asks what psychoanalysis can learn from the disciplines with which it is in dialogue, and particularly how it can retain its own capacity for critical thought.Sophisticated and stimulating, yet accessible and approachable, this important book:- Provides a critical exploration that will stimulate further debate about the place of psychoanalysis in intellectual life- Develops the newly emerging psychosocial perspective as one that links psychological and social theories in novel ways.Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic will be of profound interest to students and academics across a wide range of disciplines, particularly those taking courses in social, cultural or political theory at undergraduate or postgraduate level or studying on programmes in Psychoanalytic or Psychosocial Studies.

Les entreprises sont-elles ce lieu de pure rationalité professionnelle que les salariés, les managers ou même les experts veulent bien penser habituellement? Leurs gestions, leurs organisations, leurs partis pris stratégiques ou économiques ne procèdent-ils réellement toujours que de la froide analyse d'éléments parfaitement objectifs? Cet ouvrage tente de répondre à ces questions de manière novatrice en questionnant les systèmes d'organisation par les concepts de la psychanalyse.

In her latest book, Dr. Louise Kaplan, author of the groundbreaking Female Perversions, explores the fetishism strategy, a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and if necessary, murder human vitalities. Through an exploration of such cultural phenomena as footbinding, reality television, and the construction of robots, Kaplan demonstrates how, in a technology-driven world, an understanding of the fetishism strategy can help to preserve the human dialogue that is the basis of all human relationships. Kaplan writes from the heart as well as from the intellect.

This current volume by successful consultants to leading organizations and institutions combines two of their recent papers. The first paper,'Disillusionment', looks at the phenomenon of illusion and disillusion in organizations. The authors believe that illusions construct us, as opposed to the commonly-held view that we create them. This is the main hypothesis in the book, which is examined with the help of examples from personal and institutional points of view. The authors claim we can learn to recognize our own illusions and learn from them, and this is the process they call'disillusionment'. Dialogue of Lacks follows on from the first paper and further elaborates on the process that is disillusionment and discusses'lack of dialogue'.'The trudging that each of us is engaged in - over a shorter or longer distance - whilst grappling with our own illusions is a fundamental journey, intimate and unique, passing through our own construction and touching on the very essence of our life.

In diesem Buch schreiben zwei Jungianer und ein Freudianer über die Notwendigkeit, den tiefenpsychologischen Erkenntnisansatz pfleglich zu behandeln. Angesichts des rasanten Zuwachses an neurowissenschaftlichen und kognitionspsychologischen Befunden und Theorien scheinen die ursprünglichen Entdeckungen Sigmund Freuds und Carl Gustav Jungs hoffnungslos überholt und veraltet. Aber gerade angesichts der derzeitigen Überschätzung des positivistischen Wissens und seiner Einseitigkeiten ist das Querdenken der Tiefenpsychologie unverzichtbar. Trotz der Revision mancher Auffassungen bleiben die grundsätzlichen Erkenntnishaltungen und ihre Anwendungen in der Therapie ebenso wie ihre Anregungen für andere Wissenschaften auch ein Jahrhundert später absolut notwendig. Mehr noch: Die Tiefenpsychologie sollte als Grundlage einer Wissenschaft vom Menschen betrachtet werden.

Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy to transform the psychoanalytic study of social oppression. The book considers such questions as, How can psychoanalysis and critical social theory engage and transform one another? How can the social dimensions of subjectivity be understood within the framework of a classic psychoanalytic theory that rejects the social domain that gives rise to subjectivity in the first place? Between the Psyche and the Social reclaims the contributions of psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, postcolonial, and political theories in order to change the parameters of the current debates on the social dimensions of subjectivity.

Through a critique of history—as a reality, a discipline, and a way of writing—Deracination challenges the basic theoretical tenets of both humanism and postmodernism. As a discipline, history is currently undergoing what Heidegger would call a productive'crisis,'and a number of thinkers, including Michel Foucault, Hayden White, Paul Ricoeur, and Stephen Greenblatt, have begun to reexamine the cognitive assumptions and narrative paradigms that inform the discipline. This book radicalizes such developments in order to construct both a new theory of history as well as a new concept of how histories should be written. To make the interrogation concrete, the book focuses on Hiroshima and the ways in which the trauma of that event has been repressed by the discourses that historians have fashioned in order to'explain'what happened on August 6, 1945.

The justification and legitimacy of psychoanalytic knowledge and its relevance to social and political questions.

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.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 wri