Lacan on Depression and Melancholia

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-10653-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.

The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts – such as object a, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation – as demonstrated via a variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis.

Lacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hook, Derek

Vanheule, Stijn

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Introduction: The failings of depression - A Lacanian orientation

Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule

- Depression reconsidered: The well-spoken, neurotic conflicts, and desire

Stephanie Swales

- In between the signifier and the Real: On depressive experiences

Stijn Vanheule

- Forgetting and remembering

Russell Grigg

- Some thoughts on Mourning and Melancholia

Darian Leader

- Conceptualizing and treating (manic-depressive) psychosis: A Lacanian perspective

Stijn Vanheule

- Maneuvers of transference in psychosis: A case study of melancholia from a Lacanian perspective

Joachim Cauwe and Stijn Vanheule

- The complex of melancholia

Derek Hook

- Susan Stern: Sham

Geneviève Morel

- Excessive creativity in melancholia

Leon S. Brenner

- Dressing up the death drive: Mourning as a defense against melancholia

Jamieson Webster and Patricia Gherovici

- The specificity of manic-depressive psychosis

Darian Leader

- Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public health

Thomas Svolos

Über Autor(innen)

Derek Hook is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and a Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist and a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis.