Psychopathologies of the Living

Selected Essays of Pierre Fedida
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-63758-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

Psychopathologies of the Living makes the work of the French psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida (1934-2002) available in English for the first time.

Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint present key essays selected from Fédida’s extensive œuvre. The book directs attention to two salient dimensions of Fédida’s writing: his attention to the pathologies of the body, considered as both a psychic and somatic entity, and his insistence on the relevance of psychoanalytic thought to the sciences of life. The chapters included in this collection detail Fédida’s creative use of aesthetic sources in his psychoanalytic work, his distinctive and creative manipulation and revision of central psychoanalytic concepts and his precise attention to the texts of Freud, Ferenczi, Winnicott among others. This selection of Fédida’s essays also shows his avoidance of thematization or explicit theorisation; for Fédida the theory of psychoanalysis must arise out of the specific interplay of language and the ‘space of the session’.

Psychopathologies of the Living will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training and to academics and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, and literary studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saint, Nigel

ffrench, Patrick

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Series editor’s foreword

Introduction by Patrick ffrench and Nigel Saint

Chapter One: ‘The Site of the Stranger’

Chapter Two: ‘The Interlocutor’

Chapter Three: ‘Regression’

Chapter Four: ‘Where does the Human Body Begin?’

Chapter Five: ‘On the Primitive’

Chapter Six: ‘The Dream’s Hypochondria’

Chapter Seven: ‘Residues of the Day and of Life’

Chapter Eight: ‘The Indistinct Breath of the Image’

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick ffrench is Professor of French at King’s College London where he teaches 20th-century French literature, philosophy and cinema, critical theory and psychoanalysis.

Nigel Saint is Lecturer in French at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, UK, where he works on French visual culture and particularly Pascal Convert and Georges Didi-Huberman.