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Freud and the Non-European
In this chapter, I concentrate on Freud and the Non-European, which is Said’s (2003) final book before losing his life to leukemia. The book is a...
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Empowerment: Freud, Canguilhem and Lacan on the ideal of health promotion
Empowerment is a prominent ideal in health promotion. However, the exact meaning of this ideal is often not made explicit. In this paper, we outline...
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Tyranny of Indian nationalism and resistance in Kashmir: Reading a Kashmiri narrative with Iqbal and Freud
This paper is a reflection on Indian nationalism and political resistance in Kashmir. Using Freud’s myth of the primal horde as an allegory for...
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Entre Negros, Blancos y Judios: Revisiting Claudia Tate’s “Freud and His Negro” with Puerto Rican Eyes
In this essay the author, a Puerto Rican psychoanalytic therapist, weaves personal, clinical, and theoretical material to interpret Claudia Tate’s...
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The Road to Thebes: Freud and French Retrospective Medicine
Responding to the famous critique of Freud in Jean-Pierre Vernant’s essay Oedipe sans complexe, this chapter argues Vernant’s accusation that Freud...
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The Nuclear Family and Its Discontents: Freud, Jung, and Szondi and the Persistence of the Dynasty
From the emphasis on early childhood as the central arena in the etiology of neuroses to the framing of the oedipus complex, Freud’s picture of...
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Copi, Savary, the Grand Magic Circus, and Other Actors: The Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud
This chapter analyzes Good Bye Mister Freud as a case study to illustrate the weave of human and non-human actors influencing a theatre production,...
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Psychoanalytic Currency: Money, Commensurability, and Clinical Economies from Freud to Lacan
The Freudian psychoanalytic interpretation of a subject’s relation to money as a figuration of unconscious anal erotism remains an important theme in...
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Pedagogies of Affect with Lyotard’s Freud
Lyotard is concerned with what is not being said and barriers to communication and the direct transference of knowledge in education. This sounds...
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Cruelfictions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Derrida, Mignotte
Derrida has asserted that the main problem encountered by psychoanalysis is the existence of cruelty, a question that has never been solved. Touria...
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Hannah Arendt and Sigmund Freud on Sexual Identity in 2020
While more and more scholars are turning to the respective works of Hannah Arendt and Sigmund Freud to explain phenomena unknown to their times, such...
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Sigmund Freud and Social Theory Manqué
What was lost when sociology lost Freud? And why do some non-Freudians--who do not find themselves enamored with Freud’s theories--nonetheless find...
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Non-pharmacological interventions for schizophrenia—analysis of treatment guidelines and implementation in 12 Southeast European countries
This study aimed to analyze treatment guidelines of 12 SEE countries to identify non-pharmacological interventions recommended for schizophrenia,...
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Reading Freud Anew
Howard Kaye offers an important and compelling demonstration of Freud’s continued signifcance as a cultural and social theorist. Kaye provides a deep...
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Freud in America: The Golden Age, the Freud Wars, and Beyond
This chapter addresses the reception and dissemination of Freudian ideas in the United States from the Golden Age through the Freud wars to the rise...
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Lacan and Jung (1): The Threatening Affinity
This chapter discusses Lacan’s handling of Jungian discourse. In the previous chapters, I presented Lacan’s main strategy of conceptualizing Freudian...
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In the Middle: Subjects, Objects, and Theories of Things
The relationship between subjects and objects is one of the central areas of inquiry within philosophy, psychology, and even recent studies in...
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Sociogenic Foundations of Theory and Practice: Revolutionizing Psychoanalysis
This chapter reviews Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952/2008), widely regarded as the foundation of decolonial psychoanalysis. The chapter unpacks...
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Morality and the Rational Control of Desire
I suggest that negative morality, which focuses on restraining excessive desire in the context of a heightened fear for one’s survival (a conflict...
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From the Grand Tour to the Virtual Tour: Dreaming of the Classical Between Past and Present
The purpose of this essay is to investigate the various reasons, not only cultural, for the attraction that pushed many great philosophers and...