Irreverence and Psychoanalysis

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-20153-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

This book explores the role of psychoanalysis as an irreverent discipline—questioning received wisdoms, challenging internal and external constraints, and unearthing links between the outlandish and the transformative.

Psychoanalysis is a field exquisitely suited to embracing complication and contradiction. Irreverence can be complex, as it risks disrespect for what others value or cherish. Yet a willingness to challenge the sacred can expose ideologies and hypocrisies that protect existing power structures both outside and inside the psychoanalytic field. The chapters in this volume span this territory engaging tensions between tradition and change and raising profound questions about what the future holds. From the political to the personal, the psychic to the social, the mind to the body, the voices in this volume, which include some of the most influential thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis, speak to what is often left silenced or unquestioned.

This is essential reading for all psychoanalysts, as well as for readers across other disciplines, dilettantisms, and curiosities interested in probing the unruly forces that give psychoanalysis its particular power.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrucelli, Jean

Schoen, Sarah

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I: Getting into Good Trouble: Race, Sex, and Enthusiasms 1. Irreverence and Humor in Theory and Practice: A Resource to Help with Mystifications and Misconceptions 2. Notes from the Erotic Field: Potholes, Confessions, Discoveries 3. Irreverence: A Necessary Component of Psychoanalytic Identity and Practice in our Authoritarian and Racist World 4. Irreverence as Love from Close-in Rather Than Far-away: “Good Trouble” from John Lewis to Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis Section II: Between Two Points: Stretching Beyond Outside in and Inside Out as our Loyalties are Challenged 5. Remaking Psyches in a World Being Remade 6. Ethical Irreverence, or an Analyst Outside of History 7. ALL BORN SCREAMING: Where have all our Appetites and Desires Gone? Section III: Humans, Minds, and Brains: A Trialogue at the edge of AI Possibility 8. Reverence and Irreverence 9. Does Your Bot Give a Damn? A brief Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective on LLM’s 10. You’re Already an AI Revolutionary! But On Whose Side? 11. Amy Levy’s Response 12. Fred Gioia’s Response 13. Todd Essig’s Response Section IV: Approach with Irreverence: Psychoanalysis, Gender & Sexuality 14. A 1970’s Feminist Psychoanalyst’s Perspective on Gender, Sex, Sexualities 15. May You Live in Interesting Times: Some Irreverent Reflections on Psychoanalytic Grandiosity 16. Some Thoughts on Gender 17. When Irreverent Defiance is Needed: A Call to Action Section V: Don't talk to THOSE People! Does Irreverence calm the waters or fuel the flames of toxic polarization? 18. THEM’S FIGHTIN’ WORDS: RHETORIC AND POLARIZATION 19. Bullet in the Brain: Reverence, Irreverence, and the Pursuit of Dialogue 20. The Gaza Ordeal; Our Sadistic Moment Section VI: Irreverence and Orthodoxy In Psychoanalysis 21. ON IRREVERENCE 22. Slow Therapy: Psychoanalysis as Counterculture 23. Genocide and the Screen of Irreverence 24. Defiant Voices: Language, Irreverence, and Impeccable Speech

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., CEDS-C is Training & Supervising Analyst, Faculty, Director, and Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service. She is Director of the one-year educational training program (EDCAS) and Conference Advisory Board Committee Chair at the William Alanson White Institute. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant, NYU Postdoctoral in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and Associate Editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Sarah Schoen, PhD is Training & Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute. She is an Adjunct Clinical Professor and Clinical Consultant for NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Invited Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is also on the Editorial Board for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Executive Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.