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Adam Phillips: On Not Believing In Anything: Or, Why Freud?
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L. Sigmund Freud Lecture by Adam Phillips on the occasion of Sigmund Freud's birthday, 06.05.2023
Using Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus as some kind of context for Freud's work during the catastrophic cultural disillusionments of the First and Second World Wars, the lecture explores how psychoanalysis – and Freud's work in particular – addresses questions about the nature of belief, and what it might be about so-called human nature that we can go on believing in after such global destructiveness.
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Leader, Darian. The New Black
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What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not we are able to mourn.
In this important and groundbreaking book, acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader urges us to look beyond the catch-all concept of depression to explore the deeper, unconscious ways in which we respond to the experience of loss. In so doing, we can loosen the grip it may have upon our lives.
'His orthodox, psychoanalytical approach, produces an unpredictable, occasionally brilliant book. The New Black is a mixture of Freudian text, clinical assessments and Leader's own brand of gentle wisdom' Herald
'Compelling and important . . . an engrossing and wise book' Hanif Kureishi
'There are many self-help books on the market . . . The New Black is a book that might actually help' Independent
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. He is the author of The New Black, Strictly Bipolar, Why do women write more letters than they post?, Promises lovers make when it gets late, Freud's Footnotes and Stealing the Mona Lisa, and co-author, with David Corfield, of Why Do People Get Ill? He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University.
Hook, Derek -Lacan on Depression and Melancholia
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Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.
The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts – such as object a, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation – as demonstrated via a variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis.
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory.
By Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule. Watch them presenting their book HERE
Burgoyne, Bernard - The Klein-Lacan Dialogues
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This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates that followed was to allow for dialogue, as well as controversy, to take place. Respecting the convictions of the other and allowing their expression in their own terms became a prerequisite in the dialogue. Topics discussed included phantasy, sexuality, counter-transference, the unconscious, interpretation and technique, and child analysis. The meetings provided an opportunity for reflection upon the implications for respective positions and an appreciation of the sensitivities of both schools.
From The "Foreword" by Dr Liz Reid:
It is with particular pleasure that I write the Foreword to this collection of THERIP's Psychoanalytic Seminars: The Klein - Lacan Dialogues .
The Higher Education Network for Research and Information in Psychoanalysis - THERIP - was founded in 1988. It is an essential part of THERIP's function to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and information in psychoanalysis, not only in the UK but abroad as well. Equally it is an essential part of THERIP's function to broaden debate within and about psychoanalysis.
THERIP also produces a Register giving information on members' research in the field. This enables researchers to establish contact with each others' work. The Psychoanalysis Newsletter publishes a wide variety of articles and an extensive Events Diary.
THERIP organizes a series of lectures each year. Topics are addressed by speakers from different schools of psychoanalysis. In keeping with THERIP's role as a forum for discussion, the organization is not affiliated to any particular school. Much of THERIP's unique contribution to psychoanalytic debate lies in this very
impartiality.
This is the second collection in a series of lectures published to reach a wider audience. It covers the academic year 1994 to 1995.
As the title, The Klein - Lacan Dialogues suggests, the lectures take the form of panel discussions. These were very well received by the audience who were present at the time.
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- Nobus, Dany. Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
- Leader, Darian. Strictly Bipolar
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- Leader, Darian. Jouissance. Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction
- Melman, Charles - Studies on Hysteria Revisited: Charles Melman on Trauma, Incompatibility, Repression and the Unconscious
- Lacan, Jacques - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Book XVII)
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- Loose, Rik. The Subject of Addiction
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