Lacanian Perspectives on Jealousy

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-63750-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)

A great effort has been made in contemporary Western culture to move beyond jealousy in our private lives. This collection takes the temperature of jealousy today – how does it show up in the clinic? Does this differ from how it used to? What can be said of how jealousy functions both psychically and socially?

Clinicians and writers working from within a Lacanian psychoanalytic framework explore the concept and unpack not only its numerous guises and forms, but its founding effects both on the level of the individual and the social. The question as to where jealousy is located today leads to a deeper look at the feeling’s origins: its close relation to identification and with envy, its interaction with early infantile complexes, its constant interplay with the social realm and its systems of governance, and its complex expression of ambivalence towards the maternal.

This book is for anyone interested in psychoanalysis, be they readers or historians of psychoanalysis, or clinicians looking for ways to approach jealousy in their practice. It is also for anyone who knows what it is to suffer jealousy, which if Freud was right, is most of us.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Carmen

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, Carmen Wright 2. Jealousy, Monogamy and Utopian Politics, Anouchka Grose 3. Jealousy, Darian Leader 4. Sisterly Jealousies, Genèieve Morel 5. Jealousy as a Social Bond, Renata Salecl 6. Jealousy of the Real, Akshi Singh 7. Usurpers and rivals: Jealousy and Envy in Lacan’s Family Complexes, Kristina Valendinova 8. Jealousy: Gazes, Mothers, America, Jamieson Webster 9. Jealousy: The Good, the Bad, and the Social, Carmen Wright

Über Autor(innen)

Carmen Wright is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist practicing in London. She is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, where she also teaches. She welcomes at the François Dolto inspired ‘Maison Verte’ in London, Bubble & Speak.