The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation
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The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation

The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other

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eBook - ePub

The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation

The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other

About this book

According to Jacques Andre, "the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger." But the practice of psychoanalysis can only unfold if there is a strict respect for ethics. The words seduction and ethics, which at first sight seem mutually exclusive, are thus, as the author shows, at the heart of the analytic perspective. The author takes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas' thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset, due to the transmission of enigmatic messages compromised by his or her unconscious. The analyst's ethical position is re-examined and with it the feminine/maternal origins of the human capacity for responsibility for the other.

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Yes, you can access The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation by Viviane Chetrit-Vatine in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & History & Theory in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780429920653
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  8. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  9. SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD
  10. PREFACE
  11. INTRODUCTION
  12. PART I: ON A POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION OF LEVINAS’S THOUGHT TO CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYSIS
  13. PART II: AT THE BEGINNING OF LIFE: PRIMAL SEDUCTION, PASSION, AND ETHICAL EXIGENCY
  14. PART III: THE ORIGINS OF SUBJECTIVE APPROPRIATION IN ANALYSIS, THE ANALYST’S PASSION, AND THE ETHICAL SEDUCTION OF THE ANALYTIC SITUATION
  15. PART IV: A NEW PSYCHOANALYTIC STATUS FOR ETHICS? THE FEMININE–MATERNAL ORIGINS OF THE CAPACITY FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OTHER
  16. EPILOGUE The analyst’s anxiety or ethical awakening
  17. APPENDICES
  18. REFERENCES
  19. INDEX