Ethical Upheaval, Creative Upheaval

The Actual of Ethics in Psychoanalysis and in Life
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-24684-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

In a profound new interweaving of the ideas of Levinas and Laplanche, this book rethinks the origin of ethical capacity in human life.

It elaborates on the implications of ethics at the beginning of life in the care of infants; in psychoanalytic practice; and in the socio-political sphere. The author puts forward the hypothesis of the feminine maternal dimension as the origin of ethical capacity, and proposes the notion of ‘ethical seduction’ to address the asymmetry between analyst and analysand. With rich clinical vignettes, the text offers an expansive metapsychology linking three elements: the organic body and the vital-identital; the erotic body and the Sexual; and the infinite part of our psyche arising through the ‘Ethical’.

Written in the long shadow of the Shoah and amid contemporary violence, this book is original and meaningful reading for all psychoanalysts.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chetrit-Vatine, Viviane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychodynamische Psychotherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: At the dawn of psychic life: ethical seduction in analysis and in life 1. Primal seduction, matricial space and asymmetry in the psychoanalytic encounter 2. From mastery to the caress - time and the sublimatory moment 3. The significance of menaing, or the ethical dimension of the analyst’s listening and saying 4. Ethical upheaval, passion of the analyst, and subjective appropriation Part II: Between body and psyche: ethics 5. Wounded Oedipus and ethical upheaval 6. The matricial third: the feminine-maternal sphere in every human subject 7. The actual of ethics in psychoanalysis 8. Can we speak of a life sexual? 9. Psychic bisexuality, ethical seduction and matricial space Part III: Elements for a contemporary metapsychology? 10. From an altered unconscious ego to a revitalized unconscious ego 11. The triple asymmetry of the fundamental anthropological situation 12. Touching on the dimension of infinity when the sexual is equally involved 13. Time and space of the other - or the analytic situation and the dimension of infinity: Makom 14. The ethical: for a negotiation between the vital-identital and the sexual Part IV: Societal Implications 15. Freud’s ‘Why war?’ revisited 16. Why evil? 17. A voice from another bank 18. Religious belief and its vicissitudes 19. For an ethics of saying well in the light of contemporary parental configurations

Über Autor(innen)

Viviane Chetrit-Vatine is a former President of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, and a training and supervising psychoanalyst for adults and children at the Israel Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is also a faculty member at this Institute, and at Tel-Aviv University. She has actively contributed to the Congrès des Psychanalystes de Langue Française (Congress of French-Speaking Psychoanalysts).