Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis : Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political

Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis. Psychoanalysis, having been situated in the borders of natural and social sciences and humanities as well as at the crossroads of Romantic, Modern and Postmodern historical conditions, continues to inspire and learn from extremely rich human imagination, thought and experience. This volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners from different parts of the world who present unique insights into the field of psychoanalysis. It forms novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts. The interconnected chapters in this collection: * critically explore important aspects of psychoanalysis which have been underutilized in socio-historical and political analysis * provide new insights on human psychosocial world in terms of embodiment, subjectivity, collective action, contemporary societal structures and political cultural dynamics in order to facilitate further transdisciplinary conversations * re-vision psychoanalysis as a self-reflective way of life, which is significantly relevant to, and is a meaningful way out of, many of our contemporary dilemmas Front Matter....Pages i-xv Entrance: Contemporary Conditions of (Im)possibility and a Revisionary Meaning Context of Psychoanalysis....Pages 1-9 Invitation: Revisioning Psychoanalysis (The Un/limited Un/conscious)....Pages 10-44 Freud’s Culture....Pages 45-59 The Re-enactment of Denial....Pages 60-75 Sa loob ang kulo: Speaking the Unconscious in the Transformations of a Filipino Proverb....Pages 76-92 Beyond Objectivity to Extimité: Feminist Epistemology and Psychoanalysis....Pages 93-113 Knotted Subjectivity: On Lacan’s Use of Knot Theory in Building a Non-universal Theory of the Subject....Pages 114-128 Beyond Identification: The (Im)possibility of Loving thy Neighbour....Pages 129-145 Desire in the Time of AIDS....Pages 146-163 Fanon and Libidinal Economy....Pages 164-183 Violent Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa....Pages 184-201 The Violence of an Idealized Family: A Kleinian Psychoanalytic Reading of Te Rito....Pages 202-220 Maternal Publics: Time, Relationality and the Public Sphere....Pages 221-240 Psychoanalysis and Türban: Self-castrating Objects, or Transformational-Transformative Subject-Objects of Historical Time-Soci(et)al Discourse-Political Imaginary Spheres?....Pages 241-270 Way Out....Pages 271-273 Back Matter....Pages 274-283