Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g
Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-34630-7
Verlag: Routledge
Psychoanalysis has not examined violence as such since it is a sociological and criminological concept; psychoanalysis is concerned with speech. On Psychoanalysis and Violence brings together noted Lacanian psychoanalysts and scholars to fill an important gap in psychoanalytic scholarship that addresses what the contributors term the "angwash" of our current time.
Today violence is everywhere. We are inundated with it, exhausted by it, bombarded by images and reports of it on a daily, even hourly basis. This book examines how psychoanalysis can account for the many manifestations of violence in contemporary society. Drawing on a broadly Lacanian perspective, the authors explore violence in war, terrorism, how the media portrays violence, violent video games, questions of identity, difference and the ‘other’; violence narratives and violence and DSM, and explain how to account for how violence arises and the effect it has on us on both an individual and social level. These are just some of the daily social realities of the present day whose aggression are felt by everyone, which horrify us and which we often feel powerless to change. The contributors have therefore coined a term for this cultural malaise: "angwash", arguing that we are awash in angoisse or anxiety, in a constant panic regarding the impossible and contradictory demands of a "civilization" in crisis.
On Psychoanalysis and Violence will be of great interest to Lacanian psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Professional
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Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword: Is the American Youth Rebelling Against America? Gérard Pommier
Introduction Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler
Chapter 1: Bodies and the Object-Death Jean-Jacques Moscovitz
Chapter 2: Political Philosophy in Freud: The Death Drive and the Critical Faculty Judith Butler
Chapter 3: The End(s) of Violence Juliet Flower MacCannell
Chapter 4: The Sex in Their Violence: Eroticizing Biopower Todd McGowan
Chapter 5: Lone Wolf Terrorists: Howling in the Eye of the Wind - The Case of Adam Lanza Manya Steinkoler
Chapter 6: The Tortured Child Franz Kaltenbeck
Chapter 7: Click and Destroy: The Clinic of Video Games Vincent Le Corre
Chapter 8: Violence in Repetition Martine Fourré
Chapter 9: The Violence of Psychiatric Diagnosis Patrick Landman
Chapter 10: How to Measure What: Notes on Universals and Particulars Todd Dean
Chapter 11: Violence to Aggressiveness Guy Dana
Chapter 12: Why the Zombies Ate My Neighbors: Whither Ambivalence? Carol Owens & Stephanie Swales
Chapter 13: Susan Stern: Sham Geneviève Morel
Chapter 14: Breaking the Spell of the Slave Revolt in Morality: From the Subreption of Identity-in-Difference to the Repetition of the Paraconsistent Alireza Taheri
Chapter 15: Terror and the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis in Argentina 1976-1983 Patricia Gherovici
