The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (Diaeresis) - Softcover

Tupinambá, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810142813 ISBN 13: 9780810142817

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2021

Synopsis

The Desire of Psychoanalysis proposes that recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacan’s own thinking might allow us to overcome these impasses. In order to accomplish this, Gabriel Tupinambá analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community—its political position as well as its institutional history—in relation to theoretical production.

By focusing on the underlying dynamic that binds clinical practice, theoretical work, and institutional security in Lacanian psychoanalysis today, Tupinambá is able to locate sites for conceptual innovation that have been ignored by the discipline, such as the understanding of the role of money in clinical practice, the place of analysands in the transformation of psychoanalytic theory, and ideological dead-ends that have become common sense in the Lacanian field. The Desire of Psychoanalysis thus suggests ways of opening up psychoanalysis to new concepts and clinical practices and calls for a transformation of how psychoanalysis is understood as an institution.

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About the Author

GABRIEL TUPINAMBÁ is a postdoctoral fellow at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810142813
• ISBN 13: 9780810142817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280