Negativity in Psychoanalysis

Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.

Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.

While theories around negativity and death drive have become routinized within philosophical interpretations of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, they often mask an inherent positivity. This volume assembles highly esteemed psychoanalytic theorists and clinicians for an in-depth discussion on the topic. It features comprehensive introductions to Freudian and Lacanian perspectives, alongside contemporary clinical and cultural issues. The book also investigates how psychoanalytic negativity influences and is influenced by social, theological, and philosophical dialogues.

This work will prove invaluable for practicing psychoanalysts and those in training, while also appealing to academics and scholars in critical and cultural theory, continental and post-continental philosophy, and sociology, especially those whose research intersects clinical and theoretical traditions.

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Duane Rousselle, PhD, is a Canadian sociological theorist and practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst. He is a visiting associate professor of sociology at the University Colleges of Dublin and Cork.

Mark Gerard Murphy is an editor for the political journal and blog Taiwan Insight and a lecturer at St. Mary's University, Scotland, Gillis Centre, where he convenes courses on ethics, philosophy, and mystical theology and spirituality. His research interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and mystical theology. He has published in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the European Journal of Psychoanalysis.

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Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.

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Editor biography Contributor biography Acknowledgements Introduction Duane Rousselle Section 1: Foundations1. Ellie Ragland - Who is Transferring What to Whom?2. Sergio Benvenuto - On Sigmund Freud's 'Negation' Section 2: Drive & Desire3. Colin Wright - Turning Opportunities into Crises: The Lacanian Antidote to Toxic Positivity4. Todd McGowan - The Ethics of the Death Drive5. Simone Medina Polo - Humility and Humiliation of the Drive: Comedy and Tragedy in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis6. Mark Murphy - Apophatic Psychoanalysis: The Plenitude of the Negative Section 3: Clinical Implications7. Leon S. Brenner - Negation Beyond Neurosis8. Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff - Spiraling9. Aino-Marjatta Mäki - What is Non-Negativisable Jouissance?: From Negation to a Singular Norm10. Ian Parker - Badbeing: What's So Bad About Resistance in the Clinic?11. Stijn Vanheule - Singularity and the Real that cannot be Written: On Lacan's Use of Frege in his Later Work Section 4: Spare Parts12. Nicholas Balaisis - 'To Create, Perform, Produce Psychology From Scratch': Negativity in the Work of Wolfgang Giegerick13. Mark Featherstone - (Un)Mourning the End of History14. Wanyoung Kim - Trauma, Negativity, and Death in Spielrein, Heidegger and Buddhist Thought15. Joel Crombez - Why Positive Thought Must be Negated in the Analytic Session: Negative Dialectic as Therapeutic Technique16. Juliette Tocino-Smith - The Hau Must be Returned: The Exile of the Dead and Its Effects on the Western Imaginary