A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the malaise of the contemporary individual by returning the economic point of view of Freudian thinking, the concept of satisfaction, libido and pleasure-unpleasure principle to their rightful place as the motivating forces of human existence.

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Vaia Tsolas is a training and supervising analyst at Columbia University, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; co-founder and board chair of Pulsion, a psychoanalytic institute in New York City; an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; a corresponding member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Association; co-founder of Rose Hill Psychological Services in New York City; and the editor of the book A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body (Routledge 2017).

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. A member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, faculty at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center; an assistant clinical professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University; the chair of the IPA Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, COCAP; and the Board Secretary of Pulsion, a psychoanalytic institute in New York City.

Inhalt

General Introduction

VAIA TSOLAS

Early Barriers to Pleasure

CHRISTINE ANZIEU-PREMMEREUR

PART I

Crises of Ideals, Delibidinalization and Its Discontents for Our Contemporary World Introduction

EVAN MORIARTY

1 Preface to Kristeva's Work: Vitality Against Virality and Virtuality

RACHEL BOUÉ-WIDAWSKY

2 In the Current State of War, It Is Our Most Inner Selves That We Must Save

JULIA KRISTEVA

3 Preface to Contri's Work: Thinking, Drive, Law

MICHAEL CIVIN

4 The Science of Thought: The Thought of Satisfaction

GIACOMO B. CONTRI

5 Three Chapters to Be Remembered and Post-Scriptum

GIACOMO B. CONTRI AND RAFFAELLA COLOMBO

6 Dead Mother (Ire)land

MATTHEW MCCOY AND MARISA BERWALD

PART II

Delibidinalization and the Malaise of the Contemporary Subject

Introduction

SEAN LYNCH AND ANDJELA SAMARDZIC

7 Uncanny Drives: On Nightmares and Wish Fulfillment

MONIKA GSELL

8 Ridding Oneself of Reality

LAURENCE KAHN

9 On the Roots of Addictive Behavior in Narcissist Vulnerability and Lack of Transitional Area

CHRISTINE ANZIEU-PREMMEREUR

10 Reaching for the Impossible Jouissance: The Contemporary Addictive Female

VAIA TSOLAS

11 The Risk of Loss: Anxiety and Depression in Women

JACQUELINE SCHAEFFER

12 Enemies of Unpleasure

PANOS ALOUPIS

13 Resistance to Psychoanalysis

CATHERINE CHABERT

14 Unjoined Persons: Psychic Isolation and Bodily Symptoms in Adolescence

MARY T. BRADY

15 Death, Life, Birth and Sublimation in the Pandemic

ROSEMARY BALSAM

16 Death and the Use of Pleasure

DAVID LICHTENSTEIN

17 Destructive Envy and the Narcissistic Grip

DOMINIQUE CUPA

18 ... whatever ...

MICHAEL CIVIN

Afterword

ANAND DESAI