The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory

Jean-Gerard Bursztein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429922473
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In this book the author presents his reading of psychoanalysis in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud, and explores the transformations of Freud's work by his followers. The author notes that some of these followers trimmed it down even to exclude the death drive, which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-1950s embarked on a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show the importance of Freud's findings for the understanding of subjectivity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PREFACE
• FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE Unconscious incestuous passion and fundamental phantasy
• CHAPTER TWO The continual partitioning of the subjective structure over two places—conscious and unconscious
• CHAPTER THREE Taking up the Freudian theory of the Ego and the Id in the hypothesis of the structure
• CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalyst’s knowledge and psychoanalytic clinic
• CHAPTER FIVE The Symptom’s link to the structure of the unconscious
• CHAPTER SIX Conversion of death drive theory into jouissance theory
• CHAPTER SEVEN Reformulation of the concept of masochism: the concept of jouissance of the Other
• CHAPTER EIGHT The shifting of the Symptom (σ) in the structure
• CHAPTER NINE Anxiety, anguish, and depression
• CHAPTER TEN Narcissism
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Transference
• CHAPTER TWELVE Transformation process of the subject in treatment
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Psychoanalytic science
• APPENDIX
• REFERENCES
• INDEX