How to make a paranoid laugh, or, What is psychoanalysis?

著者

    • Roustang, François

書誌事項

How to make a paranoid laugh, or, What is psychoanalysis?

François Roustang ; translated by Anne C. Vila

(Critical authors & issues)

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

  • alk. paper
  • pbk : alk. paper

タイトル別名

Comment faire rire un paranoïaque?

How to make a paranoid laugh

What is psychoanalysis

統一タイトル

Comment faire rire un paranoïaque?

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注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

What happens in psychoanalysis? Why doesn't anything happen in psychoanalysis? In this sequence of fifteen essays, the distinguished French clinician and theorist Francois Roustang bursts the long-floating bubble of the pretension psychoanalysis has to scientific method and the production of objective theory. Roustang centers his argument on the deflating yet liberating power of the laugh-specifically, the freedom that comes from an ability to laugh at oneself and whatever apparently dogmatic stances one adopts in the process of elaborating one's self and one's thought. Resituating the power of psychoanalysis in terms not of an unconscious it resurrects but of an imagination it liberates, Roustang praises Freud as a new and much-needed Hesiod, as the teller of the tales of those deities and forces making up the only mythology still pertinent to our modernity. For Roustang, only when psychoanalysis is recognized as myth and mystery can it accomplish its most crucial function: helping people exist as individuals rather than as derivative illustrations of depersonalizing, supposedly objective theories. Roustang sees the root of psychoanalysis's current impasse in its obsession with establishing itself as a science and thus betraying its potential ever actually to cure those who undertake it, ever to accomplish something more liberating than recruiting practitioners and acolytes. Roustang eloquently calls upon the analytic community to recognize the anguish and uncertainty of life as the untheorizable foundation of all real individuality, liberation, and remission of suffering. His finely nuanced portrait of modern individuality is relevant to a community of readers extending far beyond the limits of those interested in psychoanalysis.

目次

Preface 1. Nobody 2. Uncertainty 3. The Effectiveness of Psychoanalysis 4. On the Epistemology of Psychoanalysis 5. The Laboratory of Cruelty 6. The Components of Freud's Style 7. On Transference Neurosis 8. Pedagogue or Mystagogue 9. Transmitting Anxiety 10. On the End of Analysis and Self-Hypnosis as a Cure 11. In Certain Cases 12. The Cure 13. Condition of Liberty 14. What Does it Mean to Be a Psychoanalyst? 15. Dream, Imagination, Reality Notes Acknowledgments Index

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