Resistance and Psychoanalysis: Impossible Divisions
Sep 2017 · Edinburgh University Press
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Rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought togetherAs calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view.Morgan Wortham also reveals a new theory of phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary political analysis.Key FeaturesReassesses the reception of psychoanalysis within the continental tradition to reconfigure contemporary theoretical debates Provides the broader context of the history of psychoanalysisOffers new ways of thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy and politicsAddresses a range of thinkers including Kant, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Arendt, Fanon, Derrida, Lyotard, Balibar, Malabou and Žižek.
Rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought togetherAs calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range ...
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Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.
Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.
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