Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis: Critical Juxtapositions of the Philosophical, the Sociohistorical and the Political

299 Pages·2012·1.313 MB·English

by  Aydan Gülerce (eds.)

Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis
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Re(con)figuring
Psychoanalysis
Critical Juxtapositions of the
Philosophical, the Sociohistorical
and the Political
Editedby
Aydan Gülerce
Bo˘gaziçiUniversity,Turkey
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Contents
ListofIllustrations ix
Preface x
NotesonContributors xii
ListofAbbreviations xv
Entrance:ContemporaryConditionsof(Im)possibilityanda
RevisionaryMeaningContextofPsychoanalysis 1
AydanGülerce
Invitation:RevisioningPsychoanalysis(TheUn/limited
Un/conscious) 10
AydanGülerce
1 Freud’sCulture 45
IanParker
2 TheRe-enactmentofDenial 60
StephenFrosh
3 Saloobangkulo:SpeakingtheUnconsciousinthe
TransformationsofaFilipinoProverb 76
NarcisaParedes-Canilao
4 BeyondObjectivitytoExtimité:FeministEpistemology
andPsychoanalysis 93
KareenRorMaloneandShannonD.Kelly
5 KnottedSubjectivity:OnLacan’sUseofKnotTheoryin
BuildingaNon-universalTheoryoftheSubject 114
StijnVanheuleandAbeGeldhof
6 BeyondIdentification:The(Im)possibilityofLovingthy
Neighbour 129
CalumNeill
7 DesireintheTimeofAIDS 146
GrahameHayes
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8 FanonandLibidinalEconomy 164
DerekHook
9 ViolentCrimeinPost-ApartheidSouthAfrica 184
BertOlivier
10 TheViolenceofanIdealizedFamily:AKleinian
PsychoanalyticReadingofTeRito 202
PeterBranney,BrendanGough,AnnaMadillandMandy
Morgan
11 MaternalPublics:Time,RelationalityandthePublic
Sphere 221
LisaBaraitser
12 PsychoanalysisandTürban:Self-castratingObjects,or
Transformational-TransformativeSubject-Objectsof
HistoricalTime-Soci(et)alDiscourse-PoliticalImaginary
Spheres? 241
AydanGülerce
WayOut 271
AydanGülerce
AuthorIndex 274
SubjectIndex 278
List of Illustrations
5.1 Borromeanrings 121
11.1 MOTHER 222
12.1 Transformationaltrialecticsofthetriopus’
historical/materialReal-soci(et)alSymbolic-political
Imaginary 246
12.2 Split(good/badandself/other)collectiveimaginaries
andsociopoliticaldiscoursesintheTurkishRepublican
nation’sobject-relationalpsychohistoricaltrajectories 261
12.3 Earlyhistorical/developmentalprojectivicationsbetween
the‘parental’(paternal/patronizingandmaternal/
nurturing)societiesand‘infantile’TurkishRepublican
nation 262
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