(Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-13326-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how Freud’s unpublished Project for a Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samuels, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Freud’s Project.- Chapter 3. Neuroscience and the Repression of Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 4. Moving from Freud’s Five Principles to Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts.- Chapter 5. The Desire of the Analyst and the American Repression of Psychoanalysis.- Chapter 6. Zizek and the Empty Unconscious.- Chapter 7. Misunderstanding Psychoanalysis from the Left.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Still (Mis)Understanding Psychoanalysis.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Samuels is Lecturer in Advanced Writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He holds doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English. He is the author of 14 books, including Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences (2017).