The Seductions of Psychoanalysis
Freud, Lacan and Derrida
Part of Cambridge Studies in French
- Author: John Forrester
- Date Published: November 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521424660
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The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is at once its institutional axis and experimental core. He explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida. Other key questions addressed include the significance of speech in the talking cure, and the relationship between the 'real' of psychoanalysis and the fictionality of the 'truth' it offers. Dr Forrester also focuses on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the feminine, on analysis and gossip, on the borderline of seduction and rape, and on the women who have played such a crucial role in the history of psychoanalysis, as patients, analysts or both.
Read more- This volume complements The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, vols 1 & 2, Translated by FORRESTER (Cambridge University Press 1988). Two chapters of the seminar, especially, relate very closely to this book, so readers of the earlier book should be targeted
- This is the first book to bring together enough on psychoanalysis which bears on a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines while at the same time retaining a strong inner coherence, a clear analytical style and a searching - even sceptical - critical intelligence
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'Forrester traces out the lineage from Freud to Lacan to Derrida with great sophistication and erudition … Throughout, there is his usual exemplary clarity, and a wealth of supporting illustration. Indeed there is no doubt this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the wider intellectual influence of Lacan's thought.' Martin Stanton, The Times Higher Education Supplement
See more reviews'John Forrester has written the sort of book that makes the reader yearn for prolonged after dinner conversation with the author, there being not a chapter that does not stimulate the senses towards discussion … I can imagine returning again and again for clarification and further insight over the coming years.' Jean Knowles, British Medical Journal
'The seduction of psychoanalysis is an excellent example of how, by focusing on details … a study can open out into an understanding of something as broad as the place of a discipline and a discourse within our culture. With admirable clarity and persistence, John Forrester attempts to show how it is that psychoanalysis has retained its institutional and discursive identity despite the changes and challeges it has undergone.' Dan Gunn, The Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: November 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521424660
- length: 440 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.625kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Temptation of Sigmund Freud:
1. The true story of Anna O.
2. Contracting the disease of love: authority and freedom in the origins of psychoanalysis
3. Freud, Dora and the untold pleasures of psychoanalysis
4. Rape, seduction, psychoanalysis
5. ' … a perfect likeness of the past'
Part II. The Moment of Jacques Lacan: A note on Translation
6. 'In place of an introduction', The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, books I & II
7. What the psychoanalyst does with words: Austin, Lacan and the speech acts of psychoanalysis
8. Dead on time: Lacan's theory of temporality
Part III. The Destiny of Psychoanalysis:
9. Who is in analysis with whom? Freud, Lacan, Derrida
10. Psychoanalysis: gossip, telepathy and/or science?
11. Transference and the stenographer: on Dostoevsky's The Gambler
12. Michel Foucault and the history of psychoanalysis
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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