Psychoanalysis as Radical Hospitality

Six Perspectives on Turning-to versus Turning-Away
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-71574-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 190 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

This book focuses on different forms of turning-to versus turning-away from speech across a range of experiences in clinical treatment and general life.

The chapters of this volume deal with the entrapment involved in exile from mother tongue, the parasitic language that uses the other's language as a linguistic prosthesis, the language of blank mourning which separates the mourner from their mourning, the adhesive identification of the voice and the psychotic split between voice and meaning, the mental hypotonia associated with an internalized object that turns away, and the spectrum between revenge and forgiveness. Each chapter sheds light on a different angle of the psyche's ability to spot its own leverage point and use it to transcend the infinite varieties of helpless victimhood: from the position of the victim to the position of the witness, from being the object of the narrative to being its subject, and from the position of righteousness to the willingness to forgive and be forgiven.

This book is a must read for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and literary scholars, as well as philosophers of language and of the mind.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amir, Dana

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Language of Exile: Reflections on Jean Améry’s Essay “How Much Home Does a Person Need?”  2. Parasitic Language  3. The Bereaved Survivor: Trauma Survivors and Blank Mourning  4. The Experience of Voice in Analytic Listening  5. From 'Turning Away' to 'Turning To': Adoption as Radical Hospitality  6. On Forgiveness

Über Autor(innen)

Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, professor, vice dean for research and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, editor in chief of Maarag–the Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis, poetess and literature researcher. She is the author of six poetry books, three memoirs in prose and four psychoanalytic non-fiction books. She is the winner of many literary as well as academic prizes, including five international psychoanalytic awards.