Speculations After Freud

Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture

Michael Munchow, Sonu Shamdasani

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Print ISBN: 9780415076562
• eBook ISBN: 9781134902262
• Topic: Philosophie
• Subtopic: Histoire et théorie de la philosophie

Psychoanalysis has transformed our culture. We constantly use and refer to ideas from psychoanalysis, often unconsciously. Psychology, philosophy, politics, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, literary studies, cultural studies, and other disciplines have been permeated by the competing schools of psychoanalysis. But what of psychoanalysis itself? Where is it going one hundred years after Freud's own speculations took shape? Does it still have a role to play in cultural debate, or should it perhaps be abandoned?
Speculations After Freud confronts the dilemmas of contemporary psychoanalysis by bringing together some of the most influential and best known writers on psychoanalysis, philosophy and culture. The advocates and critics of psychoanalysis, both institutional and theoretical, critically appraise the powerful role psychoanalytic speculation plays in all areas of culture.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTRIBUTORS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION: THE CENSURE OF THE SPECULATIVE
• 1. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS
• 2. PSYCHOANALYSTS IN TIMES OF DISTRESS
• 3. “MAN IS BY NATURE A POLITICAL ANIMAL” OR: PATIENT AS CITIZEN
• 4. PSYCHOANALYSIS IN LEFT FIELD AND FIELDWORKING: EXAMPLES TO FIT THE TITLE
• 5. THE ALIBIS OF THE SUBJECT: LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY
• 6. “IT’S ONLY THE FIRST STEP THAT COSTS
• 7. LUST
• 8. IMMANENT DEATH, IMMINENT DEATH: READING FREUD’S BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE (1920) WITH HEIDEGGER’S BEING AND TIME (1927) AND METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC (1928), THOUGH THERE’S SOMETHING IN IT FOR ARISTOPHANES, TOO…
• 9. THE WORD OF SILENCE
• 10 THE SANDMAN LOOKS AT “THE UNCANNY”: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED OR OF THE SECRET; HOFFMANN’S QUESTION TO FREUD
• 11. THE PLEASURE OF THERAPY