Vicissitudes: Histories and Destinies of Psychoanalysis
Naomi Segal (Editor), Sharon Kivland (Editor)
Series: imlr books
Published in association with: Institute of Modern Languages Research
Academics, analysts and artists are gathered together in this illustrated volume, which celebrates the culmination of a two-year project at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies to discover and debate current issues in psychoanalysis in the arts and humanities across five language-fields in Europe and beyond. The twenty-four essays include surveys of psychoanalytic thought in areas speaking French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; the work of eight artists, ranging from found objects in Marseilles or the figure of Gradiva on a manhole cover to the life of Le Corbusier, the lightest object in the world and words on a glass wall; and eight academic essays, including studies of humour in child therapy, Freud in Argentina, sibling trauma in the Schreber family and psychoanalysis in the university curriculum.
Contents
Introduction Naomi Segal and Sharon Kivland
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE ARTS
1 Art and Psychoanalysis (Among Other Discourses)
Malcolm Quinn
2 Between Two Worlds Mark Nash
3 Transcript
Sharon Kivland
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD
4 Freedom to Roam
Julia Borossa
5 How a Child Develops a Sense of Humour During Psychoanalysis
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur
6 La reproduction
Stéphane Le Mercier
PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE
7 Pedagogy and Practice
Amy Wygant
8 Psychoanalysis in the University: The Clinical Dimension
Sander L. Gilman
9 Materials for the Advancement of Conceptualization: An Introduction to Materials Library
Zoe Laughlin
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE SPANISH- AND PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING WORLD
10 Speaking Experience
Alison Sinclair
11 Psychoanalysis in Argentine Culture: A Social and Political Interpretation
Hugo Vezzetti
12 Earnest Abnegation in Perpetuity
Juan Cruz
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS
13 Accidental Pasts and the Truth of History
Ahuvia Kahane
14 The ‘Sibling Trauma’ and the Case of Judge Daniel
Juliet Mitchell
15 Spirit
Jaspar Joseph-Lester
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING WORLD
16 Constructions in the Humanities: The German-field Seminars
Martin Liebscher
17 Staging Freud: Reflections on Gradiva, the Muse of Psychoanalysis
Herbert Lachmayer
18 Gradiva Project
William Cobbing
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRANSMISSION
19 Transmission Impossible?
Andrew Webber
20 On Psychoanalysis and its History: Some Reflections from the South
Mariano Ben Plotkin
21 In Praise of Ghosts
Uriel Orlow
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE ITALIAN-SPEAKING WORLD
22 Family Matters
Lesley Caldwell
23 Identity, Writing and Uncertainty
Claudio Magris
24 On the World of Interiors
Marcella Vanzo
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Paperback: 9780854572342 / 351 pages / 229mm x 152mm
Naomi Segal (Editor)
Sharon Kivland (Editor)
Subject: Languages, Cultures and Societies
BISAC codes: PSY026000
Thema codes: JMAF
Keywords: Child psychology, Franz Fanon, Freud, Humour, Lacanian school, Pedagogy, Therapy, Trauma, art, identity
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