The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida: 26 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 26)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: New Ed, 11/7/1991
EAN 9780521424660, ISBN10: 0521424666
Paperback, 440 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is at once its institutional axis and experimental core. He explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida. Other key questions addressed include the significance of speech in the talking cure, and the relationship between the 'real' of psychoanalysis and the fictionality of the 'truth' it offers. Dr Forrester also focuses on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the feminine, on analysis and gossip, on the borderline of seduction and rape, and on the women who have played such a crucial role in the history of psychoanalysis, as patients, analysts or both.
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Temptation of Sigmund Freud
1. The true story of Anna O.
2. Contracting the disease of love
authority and freedom in the origins of psychoanalysis
3. Freud, Dora and the untold pleasures of psychoanalysis
4. Rape, seduction, psychoanalysis
5. ' … a perfect likeness of the past'
Part II. The Moment of Jacques Lacan
A note on Translation
6. 'In place of an introduction', The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, books I & II
7. What the psychoanalyst does with words
Austin, Lacan and the speech acts of psychoanalysis
8. Dead on time
Lacan's theory of temporality
Part III. The Destiny of Psychoanalysis
9. Who is in analysis with whom? Freud, Lacan, Derrida
10. Psychoanalysis
gossip, telepathy and/or science?
11. Transference and the stenographer
on Dostoevsky's The Gambler
12. Michel Foucault and the history of psychoanalysis
Notes
Bibliography
Index.