Slavoj Žižek

Sergio Benvenuto

Glyn Daly

conversazioni con Žižek

Psicoanalisi e mondo contemporaneo

This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that "paraphilias" today are taken as an ethical failure of the sexual relationship with the other. The perversions signal a specific relationship with the other, who is treated not simply as a sexual object, but someone whose subjectivity is ably exploited precisely in order to get a perverse pleasure. Acts, if considered perverse, are understood as a metaphorical re-edition of a trauma, above all sexual, in which the subject (as a child) suffered the bitter experience of exclusion or jealousy.

Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis

What are Perversions?

Cristiana Cimino

PERVERSION: Elizabeth Roudinesco, Some Facets of Perversion; Sergio Benvenuto, Perversions Today. THE BODY AND THE REAL: Adrian Vodovosoff, The Suffering Subject Faced with Advances in Science and Medical Technique. Ethics, Thought, Humanity; Oren Gozlan, The "Real" Time of Gender; Viktor Mazin, Techniques for Masturbating. The Impossible Sexual Relationship as Prescribed by Gaspar Noe's Film We Fuck Alone. PASOLINI & FIREFLIES: Jean Paul Curnier, The Disappearance of the Fireflies; Cristiana Cimino, Witnesses of Desire. REVIEWS: Claudia Frank, Melanie Klein in Berlin - Her First Psychoanalyses of Childer, by Ayelet Hirshfeld; Roger Frie and Donna Orange (editors), Beyond Postmodernism, New Directions in Clinical Theory and Practice, by Raul Moncayo."

Jep European Journal of Psychoanalysis N 30

SCHREBER REVISITED Zvi Lothane, The Legacies of Schreber and Freud - Shmuel Hazanovitz, Schreber's Psychosis Revisited: A Look into the Function of Passion in the Emergence of Psychosis - Bernd Nitzschke, Solution and Salvation. Daniel Paul Schreber's "Cultivation of Femininity" - Galina Hristeva, "Homo Homini Deus." Freud as a Religious Critic in "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" - Andre Bolzinger, Freud's Affectionate Regard for Schreber - Andrea Wald, On a Breakdown in Science: The Paranoid's World and the Baroque - Francois Sauvagnat, Eight Forms of Realities in the Schreber Case"

Jep European Journal of Psychoanalysis 31

Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in philosophy and the social sciences, in a book that shows how it is possible to see the value of Lacanian concepts without necessarily being defined by them. In accessible, conversational language, the book provides a clear-sighted overview of the key ideas within Lacan’s work, situating them at the apex of the linguistic turn. It deconstructs the three Lacanian orders – the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real – as well as a range of core Lacanian concepts, including alienation and separation, après-coup, and the Lacanian doctrine of temporality. Arguing that criticism of psychoanalysis for a lack of scientificity should be accepted by the discipline, the book suggests that the work of Lacan can be helpful in re-conceptualizing the role of psychoanalysis in the future. This accessible introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan will be essential reading for anyone coming to Lacan for the first time, as well as clinicians and scholars already familiar with his work. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and scholars of philosophy and cultural studies.

Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan

Conversations with Lacan

Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the 20th century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris, and Jacques Lacan. Sergio Benvenuto unpicks the complex case history of the patient he calls "Professor Brain", a man who struggled to publish his research because of his fixation on plagiarism, and who has never been identified. Benvenuto reconstructs the case through the first-hand accounts of the patient’s analysts and Lacan and sets it in the context of mid-century psychoanalytic debate. As we progress through the patient’s story, Benvenuto explains Lacan’s theories as they apply to the case: the "foreclosure" of orality; obsessional neurosis; mental anorexia; and, above all, the reasons for his opposition to Ego psychology, of which Kris was one of the most important representatives. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. It will also be of interest to academics and scholars of philosophy, the history of psychoanalysis, literature, and cultural studies.

Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater

Soggetto e masse. La psicologia delle folle di Freud

Da decenni il DSM (Diagnostical and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, giunto alla sua quinta edizione), elaborato da psichiatri americani, è la Bibbia di gran parte degli specialisti in Occidente. Esso è considerato la vetta della psichiatria scientifica in campo diagnostico. Sergio Benvenuto smonta pezzo per pezzo questa pretesa di scientificità, denunciandolo come “manuale Cencelli” delle correnti psichiatriche americane, frutto di compromessi politici e ideologici. L’autore focalizza la sua demistificazione in particolare sulla valutazione dei disturbi a carattere sessuale (perversioni, transessualismo, disfunzioni sessuali), criticandone la pretesa di essere un metro di giudizio medico sui comportamenti e i desideri sessuali. Scritto allo stesso tempo in modo leggero e rigoroso, il presente volume situa dibattiti in apparenza di tipo specialistico nel cuore delle grandi battaglie per i diritti civili, della mutazione del costume, del nuovo ruolo della donna nella società. Di fatto prosegue ai giorni d’oggi la storica critica di Foucault al trattamento della follia nei secoli scorsi.

Una critica radicale della psichiatria del DSM-5

Lo psichiatra e il sesso

Dopo un secolo di studi sul grande viennese, Sergio Benvenuto guarda a Freud rinunciando a ogni schematismo di maniera: descrivere il sorgere stesso del pensiero freudiano come se esso accadesse ai nostri giorni.Una parte rilevante del libro è dedicata all’incontro del giovane Freud con le donne isteriche, quando, fresco medico, voleva ambiziosamente scoprire il segreto dei sogni e dell’isteria. Sono poi qui finalmente spiegate in modo non accademico alcune nozioni fondamentali della psicoanalisi, come quella di narcisismo, sublimazione, pulsione di vita e di morte, oltre che la teoria freudiana dei collettivi e dei capi, e il concetto di “fine analisi”. Scritto in modo chiaro e scorrevole, ma senza banalizzazioni, questo testo apre le porte a una comprensione non di maniera del pensiero di uno dei pensatori più influenti e discussi dell’ultimo secolo.

Leggere Freud. Dall'isteria alla fine dell'analisi

Anthony Molino

The privileged link of psychoanalysis to spoken language does not necessarily facilitate communication among analysts and psychotherapists of different mother tongues. The Journal of European Psychoanalysis_published since 1995_has long sought to overcome these linguistic barriers. Traditionally, it has introduced English readers to important European authors, as well as to authors of Latin American countries whose paradigms are close to European 'styles.' Freed of the editorial and political constraints that often govern the official organs of schools and institutions, the Journal of European Psychoanalysis has, for many years, regularly featured conversations with some of the most prominent and brilliant figures in contemporary psychoanalysis: highlighting debates and trends within psychoanalysis and related fields while remaining ever-sensitive to the practical, ethical, and theoretical implications of clinical practice. In Freud's Tracks collects some of the most engaging and provocative of these conversations, thus tracing a recent history of psychoanalysis in Europe while also evidencing the discipline's vital and vibrant connections with the fields of politics and social policy, science and philosophy, cultural studies and the social sciences.

Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis

In Freud's Tracks

Nel 1939, a Londra, un giovane professore va a fare analisi con Ernst Kris per risolvere un problema che lo tormenta: si sente come forzato a “rubare” le idee ai colleghi. Lacan riprenderà questo caso di Kris più volte, in modo quasi ossessivo, per elaborare alcune sue teorie focali: sul rapporto del soggetto al significante, sull’acting out in analisi, sull’anoressia mentale, sulla tecnica analitica.Benvenuto, assumendo i modi del detective, ci conduce in questa inchiesta a zig zag a partire dai testi di Kris e di Lacan, immergendoli nell’epoca e nella storia della psicoanalisi e non solo: le Grandi Controversie tra gli analisti londinesi e la guerra, i conflitti di Lacan con l’istituzione psicoanalitica e il suo rapporto ambivalente con la chiesa cattolica, il fracasso e il furore dei rapporti di Melanie Klein con sua figlia Melitta... Sullo sfondo di questo affresco d’epoca, estraneo a ogni agiografia degli psicoanalisti, Benvenuto dà prova esemplare di un metodo di lettura e interpretazione dei testi, leggendoli a sua volta con spirito psicoanalitico. In questa straordinaria psicoanalisi degli psicoanalisti, emerge una scommessa filosofica fondamentale: quel che conta di un testo, ancor più ciò che dice, è ciò che, senza riuscire a dire, mostra.

Sergio Benvenuto

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