|
|
Phillipe Van Haute, Tomas Geyskens
ISBN: 9781590511282
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Other Press LLC
Write a review
"Confusion of Tongues" describes the genesis of Freud's clinical anthropology. It argues that the shibboleth of psychoanalysis is not so much the primacy of sexuality, but the discontinuity between the world of the adult and the world of the child.
he book also attempts to resolve the resulting impasse through a confrontation of Freud's work with the work of Ferenczi and Laplanche. For both Ferenczi and Laplanche, Freud's clinical anthropology gets its foundation from his theory of sexual trauma. However, van Haute and Geysken's careful reading of their texts makes clear that neither Ferenczi nor Laplanche succeed in providing a new theoretical foundation for Freud's original claim that sexuality is the weak spot in human nature that predisposes us to psychopathology. Confusion of Tongues therefore argues that the shibboleth of psychoanalysis is not so much the primacy of sexuality, but the discontinuity between the world of the adult and the world of the child.
| ISBN | 159051128X | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9781590511282
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Other Press LLC | | Weight (grammes) | 240 | | Imprint | Other Press LLC | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Publication date | 31 Aug 2004 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | RC506.H288 | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY | 150.195 | | Academic level | General, Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
|
| |
| | | Introduction : Freud's gamble | | | | Ch. 1 | | From seduction to sexual biology | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Clinical anthropology in the three essays on the theory of sexuality | | 33 | | Ch. 3 | | The return of the trauma in the later work of Ferenczi | | 83 | | Ch. 4 | | Jean Laplanche and the theory of general seduction | | 103 | | | | Conclusion : confusion of tongues : the primacy of sexuality? | | 145 |
|
|
|
|
|
Enlarge
