Full Description
This book explores the unconscious in psychoanalysisusing cross-disciplinary input from the cultural, social and linguistic perspectives. This book is the first contemporary collection applying the various perspectives from within the psychoanalytic discipline.
It covers the unconscious from three main perspectives: the metaphysical, including links with quantum mechanics and Jung's thought; the socio-relational, drawing on ideas from politics, inter-generational trauma and the interpersonal; and the linguistic, drawing on notions of the social construct of language and hermeneutics. Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, theorists have wrestled with the ubiquitousness and diverse nature of the unconscious. This collection is an account of the contemporary psychoanalytic struggle to understand and work with this quintessential, defining, and foundational object of psychoanalysis.
This book is primarily of interest to practicing clinicians and trainees. It is also of significant interest to any academic professionals and students who adapt psychoanalytic thought in their studies in the humanities, including literature, philosophy, and the social sciences.
Contents
List of Contributors Introduction Part I: The Unconscious is Everywhere, and Nowhere Chapter 1: From Out of Nowhere: The Paradox of Unconscious Experience Commentary: Einstein's Elsewhere Chapter 2: Into the Frog Swamp: Jungian Conceptions of the Unconscious in Practice Commentary: Freud and Jung: Submission and Surrender to the Unconscious Part II: Power and the Social Unconscious Chapter 3: Enactment, Power, or Play, in Jessica Benjamin's Clinical Theory Chapter 4: The Power Principle: The shame of the father or the emperor's new clothes Chapter 5: Enacting Identity: Normative Unconscious Processes in Clinic and Culture Commentary: The Sexual Unconscious in Tension with Normative Unconscious Processes Part III: Language, the Sexual, and the Unconscious Chapter 6: Introduction to a Lacivanian Idiolect Commentary: Are Lacan and Sullivan Linked by their Conceptions of Anxiety and the Unassimilable? Chapter 7: Après Coup Commentary: How the World Becomes Bigger; Implantation, Intromission and the Après-coup Index
