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A Child Is Being Killed

On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive

By: Serge Leclaire

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A Child Is Being Killed

On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive

By: Serge Leclaire

The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls primary narcissism, a projection of the child our parents wanted. This ideathat each of us carries as a burden an unconscious secret of our parents, a hidden desire that we are made to live out but that we must kill in order to be borntouches on some of the fundamental issues of psychoanalytic theory. Around it, the author builds an intricate analysis of the relation between primary narcissism and the death drive. Each of the books five chapters begins with one or more case studies drawn from the authors clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concernthe image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parentsto other issues, such as the question of love, the concept of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding of the analysts impassivity. What does such impassivity imply, especially in the context of a transferential love between a female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question, the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to femininity, to the question What does a woman want? Serge Leclaires overarching thesis leads to a provocative rereading of the Oedipal configuration. Leclaire suggests that he is inhabited, pursued, haunted, and debilitated by the child who should have died in order that Oedipus might have been born into life.

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Stanford University Press

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0804731403

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A Child Is Being Killed

On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive

By: Serge Leclaire

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On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive

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Psychoanalyzing

On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter

By: Serge Leclaire

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Psychoanalyzing

On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter

By: Serge Leclaire

Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, and yet hardly any theoretical discourse is more widely misunderstood and abused. In Psychoanalyzing, Serge Leclaire offers a thorough and lucid exposition of the psychoanalysis that has emerged from the French “return to Freud,” unfolding and elaborating the often enigmatic pronouncements of Jacques Lacan and patiently working through the central tenets of the “Ecole freudienne.” As a concise but nuanced introduction to the subject, Psychoanalyzing will prove indispensable to anyone interested in psychoanalysis, especially those curious about its Lacanian reconceptualization and the linguistic theory of the unconscious and its effects. Leclaire’s study is particularly valuable for the way its author links theoretical issues to psychoanalytic practice. The opening chapter—on listening—highlights the necessity, and the impossibility, of the “floating attention” required from the analyst, while preparing the reader for the following chapters, which deal with such topics as unconscious desire, how to speak of the body, and the intrication of the object and the “letter” (i.e. the signifier, the “material support that concrete discourse borrows from language”). The final chapter—on transference—shows how the analytical dialogue differs from other dialogues. Despite the intricacy of its subject matter, the book takes very little for granted. It does not simplify the issues it presents, but does not assume a reader familiar with the concepts of psychoanalysis, let alone a reader acquainted with its French inflection. Each basic concept and term is carefully explained, so that the reader knows the meaning of “transference” or “primal scene” before proceeding to more advanced elements of psychoanalysis. Leclaire’s text is not intended merely to be “user friendly”; its purpose is to clarify and advance, rather than to impress or convert.

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Stanford University Press

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0804729115

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9780804729116

Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

By: Serge Cottet

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Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

By: Serge Cottet

Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire on psychoanalysis ever since? How has Freud's desire created symptoms in the history of psychoanalysis? Has it helped or hindered its transmission? Exploring these questions brings Serge Cottet to Lacan's concept of the psychoanalyst's desire: less a particular desire like Freud's and more a function, this is what allows analysts to operate in their practice. It emerges during analysis and is crucial in enabling the analysand to begin working with the unconscious of others when they take on the position of analyst themselves. What is this function and how can it be traced in Freud's work? Cottet's book, first published in 1982 and revised in 1996, is a classic of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It is not only a scholarly study of Freud and Lacan, but a thought-provoking introduction to the key issues of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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Routledge

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0429899742

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9780429899744

The Phenomenon of Pain

By: Serge Marchand

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The Phenomenon of Pain

By: Serge Marchand

This book deals with physiological, neurophysiological, and psychological aspects of the mechanisms and treatment of pain. It also provides information on the latest research results regarding the influence of age and gender on the perception of pain. Finally, it presents the basic mechanisms of analgesia in terms of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496331958

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9781496331953

Footlights

Critical Notebook 19701982

By: Serge Daney

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Footlights

Critical Notebook 19701982

By: Serge Daney

The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period. The Footlights (1983) was the first book by Serge Daney, a film critic admired in his lifetime by Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Luc Godard and recognized since his premature death in 1992 as the most important French writer on film after André Bazin. The Footlights stands apart in Daney’s body of work as the only collection of his essays he conceived of as a book, organizing his seminal pieces from Cahiers du Cinéma by theme and linking them with original texts that reflect in a personal voice on the doubts, battles, and illuminations of a generation of film lovers inspired by the explorations of Lacanian theory and roused by the collective aspirations of Maoist dogma. In pieces on fellow travelers Godard and Straub/Huillet, on films ranging from Pasolini’s Saló to Spielberg’s Jaws, and on the difference between film language and television discourse, Daney offers a definitive portrait of an era of radical hope and disappointment.

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217

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MIT Press

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1635901995

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9781635901993

The Unconscious and the Id

A Volume of Laplanche's Problematiques

By: Jean Laplanche,Serge Leclaire

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The Unconscious and the Id

A Volume of Laplanche's Problematiques

By: Jean Laplanche,Serge Leclaire

Jean Laplanche, known internationally as psychoanalyst, philosopher and translator of Freud, has been influential in clinical work, and in film and cultural theory. His work on the theory of drives is seminal. This is the fourth of his "Problematiques." The other volumes will be appearing from the same publisher in the future.

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Karnac Books

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1900877031

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9781900877039

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A Child Is Being Killed

A Child Is Being Killed

A Child Is Being Killed

A Child Is Being Killed

Psychoanalyzing

Psychoanalyzing

Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

The Phenomenon of Pain

The Phenomenon of Pain

Footlights

Footlights

The Unconscious and the Id

The Unconscious and the Id

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