Piotrowska / Tyrer Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable

From culture to the clinic
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-35576-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable opens a space for meaningful debate about translating psychoanalytic concepts from the work of clinicians to that of academics and back again. Focusing on the idea of the unrepresentable, this collection of essays by psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, artists and film and literary scholars attempts to think through those things that are impossible to be thought through completely.

Offering a unique insight into areas like trauma studies, where it is difficult – if not impossible – to express one’s feelings, the collection draws from psychoanalysis in its broadest sense and acts as a gesture against the fixed and the frozen. Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable is presented in six parts: Approaching Trauma, Sense and Gesture, Impossible Poetics, Without Words, Wounds and Suture and Auto/Fiction. The chapters therein address topics including touch and speech, adoption, the other and grief, and examine films including Gus Van Sant’s Milk and Michael Haneke’s Amour. As a whole, the book brings to the fore those things which are difficult to speak about, but which must be spoken about.

The discussion in this book will be key reading for psychoanalysts, including those in training, psychotherapists and psychotherapeutically-engaged scholars, academics and students of culture studies, psychosocial studies, applied philosophy and film studies, filmmakers and artists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piotrowska, Agnieszka

Tyrer, Ben

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Representing the Unrepresentable Agnieszka Piotrowska and Ben Tyrer 1. The Body Locked by a Lack of Meaning Katrine Zeuthen and Marie Hagelskjær 2. Trauma without a Subject: On Malabou, Psychoanalysis and Amour 3. A Possible Way to Represent the Un-representable in Clinical Trauma Yaelle Sibony-Malpertu 4. (Un)Representing the Real: Seeing Sounds and Hearing Images Thomas Elsaesser 5. On Touching and Speaking in (Post) (de) Colonial discourse: from Lessing to Marechera and Veit-Wild Agnieszka Piotrowska 6. Pointing at the Other Agnieszka Piotrowska 7. Is poetics a fiction about truth – in a poem? Some remarks about Paul Celan René Rasmussen 8. Presenting The Unrepresentable In Presentable Ways Pia Hylén 9. Duras and the Art of the Impossible Carin Franzén 10. Representation without Language: Freud and the Problem of the Image Annie Hardy 11. Understanding Without Words John Miller 12. Rethinking the Primal Wound, Trauma and the Fantasy of Completeness: Adopted Women’s Experiences of Meeting their Biological Fathers in Adulthood Elizabeth Hughes 13. Embodying Traumatic Griefscapes Per Roar 14. Suture and Gus Van Sant’s Milk Richard Rushton 15. Unnameable Anna Backman Rogers 16. Each Day at a Time Myna Trustram 17. The Scent of Philosophy Birthe Tranberg Nikolajsen Gregersen Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska is an internationally recognized award-winning theorist and film maker, best known for her documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower. She is a Reader in Film Theory and Practice at the University of Bedfordshire, UK and is the author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (Routledge, 2014) and editor of Embodied Encounters (Routledge, 2015).

Dr Ben Tyrer is lecturer in film studies at King’s College London, UK.