The New Klein-Lacan Dialogues - Brossura

Borossa, Julia

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ISBN 10: 1780491182 ISBN 13: 9781780491189

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2015

Riassunto

This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of psychoanalysis in the wake of Freud has been profound and far-reaching. Whilst the centrality of the unconscious is a strong conviction shared by both Klein and Lacan, there are also many differences between the two schools of thought and the clinical work that is produced in each. The purpose of this collection is to take seriously these similarities and differences. Deeply relevant to both theoretical reflection and clinical work, the New Klein-Lacan Dialogues should make interesting reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, mental health professionals, scholars and all those who wish to know more about these two leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis.The collection centres around key concepts such as: 'symbolic function', the 'ego', the 'object', the 'body', 'trauma', 'autism', 'affect' and 'history and archives'.

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Ever since psychoanalysis stopped being a unified discipline, ever since Freud's discovery fractured into competing schools and traditions, streams and paradigms, a certain 'bunker mentality' has reigned over the psychoanalytic field. This new collection of Klein-Lacan dialogues succeeds wonderfully in making rigid theoretical and clinical boundaries more permeable, not with a view to re-unifying two major strands of thought in contemporary psychoanalysis, but in an attempt to show how Klein was to some extent always already a proto-Lacanian, how Lacan borrowed more from Klein than he and his followers have been prepared to admit, and how both were essentially driven by the same clinical concerns. As a record of a series of hugely productive dialogues, I can only hope that this book will elicit more dialogues. --Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Brunel University London, and Chair of the Freud Museum, London
In this volume, which emerged from a series of seminars and discussions, leading figures from both these schools of thought engage with each other, creating the possibility for real dialogue. This is not just a series of position statements the editors required the authors to make their own thinking clear but also to really engage with each other, without brushing over differences: differences which are real and sometimes substantial, thus making it possible for real dialogue to occur. The editors have fulfilled their aim admirably - a remarkable achievement. Given that true dialogue is the basis of all serious scholarly work, this book will be recognised and enjoyed by all those who are interested in getting to grips with leading currents of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technique. --Dr David Bell, training and supervising analyst; former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society; and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic
This much-anticipated volume is the outcome of a sustained conversation between clinicians and scholars of psychoanalysis - a discipline and a praxis that is notorious for passionate schisms and betrayals, expulsions and dissolutions, and failures of dialogue. The contributors are to be congratulated for their commitment to psychoanalysis's radical project and advances in theory and clinical practice. --Dr Anne Worthington, psychoanalyst, Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University; member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and the College of Psychoanalysts, UK

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Julia Borossa

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780491182
• ISBN 13: 9781780491189
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352