Madness and the Social Link

The Jean-Max Gaudillière Seminars 1985 - 2000
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-52329-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.

The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985-2000 contains seven of the "Madness and the Social Link" seminars given by psychoanalyst Jean-Max Gaudillière at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris between 1985 and 2000, transcribed by Françoise Davoine from her notes. Each year, the seminar was dedicated to an author who explored madness in his depiction of the catastrophes of history. Surprising the reader at every turn, the seminars speak of the close intertwining of personal lives and catastrophic historical events, and of the possibility of repairing injury to the psyche, the mind, and the body in their wake.

These volumes expose the usefulness of literature as a tool for healing, for all those working in therapeutic fields, and will allow lovers of literature to discover a way of reading that gives access to more subtle perspectives and unsuspected interrelations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaudillière, Jean Max

Davoine, Françoise

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Seminar 1: 1985-1986 Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness 2. Seminar 2: 1986-1987 Gaetano Benedetti (1920-2013) Madness: an exploration of the zones of death 3. Seminar 3: 1988-1989 Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Madness in Pirandello’s work 4. Seminar 4: 1989-1990 Toni Morrison Beloved in dialogue with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: psychoanalysis and psychotherapy 5. Seminar 5: 1991-1992 August Strindberg (1849-1912) and Martii Siirala (1922-2008) The Inferno and From Transference to Transference 6. Seminar 6: 1997-1998 Pat Barker The Regeneration Trilogy: objectivity degree zero 7. Seminar 7: 1999-2000 Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) Reading madness with Hannah Arendt: the production of freedom

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Max Gaudillière studied classical literature at the École normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris before becoming a psychoanalyst. He was a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and was a member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements (CSSM), founded by Alain Touraine, research director at the EHESS.

In the weekly seminar called “Madness and the Social Link,” held for forty years at the EHESS, Gaudillière combined his clinical work with the exploration of literary works dealing with the madness of war. The focus of his clinical work was the impact of historical catastrophes on personal lives.

He is the co-author of two books written with Françoise Davoine: History Beyond Trauma (2004) and A Word to the Wise (2018, Routledge).