Schechter Illusions of a Future

Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7642-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

This pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis focuses on Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, in order to examine the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its normalization, and now its "crisis."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schechter, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part I. The Slippery Object and the Sticky Libido

1. An Imaginary of Threat and Crisis 19

2. Analysis Deferred (or, the Talking Cure Talks Back) 51

Part II. The Problem of Psychoanalytic Authority

3. Instituting Psychoanalysis in Chicago: Two Pedagogies of Desire 73

4. Professionalization and Its Discontents: The Theory of Obedience and the Drama of "Never Splitting" 95

Part III. Psychoanalysis and the Declensions of Verisimilitude

5. The Plenty of Scarcity: On Crisis and Transience in the Fifty-First Ward 123

6. On Narcissism: "Our Own Developmental Line" 161

Notes 189

References 221

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Schechter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College, Chair of Conceptual Foundations at the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Chicago.