Ethical Upheaval, Creative Upheaval

The Actual of Ethics in Psychoanalysis and in Life
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-25072-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 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

Introduction; PART ONE 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 meaning, or the ethical dimension of the analyst’s listening and saying; 4 Ethical upheaval, passion of the analyst, and subjective Appropriation; PART TWO Between the body and the 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 THREE Elements for a contemporary metapyschology?; 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 FOUR Societal implications; 15 Freud’s Why war? Revisited; 16 Why evil?; 17 A voice from another bank (2016); 18 Religious belief and its vicissitudes; 19 For an ethics of saying well in the light of contemporary parental configurations; Recapitulation; Homage to Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi; Epilogue

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).