Resistance and Psychoanalysis: Impossible Divisions

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Rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought together As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view. Morgan Wortham also reveals a new theory of phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary political analysis. Key Features Reassesses the reception of psychoanalysis within the continental tradition to reconfigure contemporary theoretical debates Provides the broader context of the history of psychoanalysis Offers new ways of thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy and politics Addresses a range of thinkers including Kant, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Arendt, Fanon, Derrida, Lyotard, Balibar, Malabou and Žižek Cover Title page Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: The Love of Lacan (Derrida, Žižek) Part I Violence and Resistance 1. Impossible Divisions: Fanon, Hegel and Psychoanalysis 2. Civility and its Discontents: Balibar, Arendt, Lyotard 3. What is a Complex? Freudian Resistances 4. Fleeced: Derrida and ‘the Deciding Discourse of Castration’ 5. The University and the Hysteric (after Derrida and Freud) Part II Phobic Resistances 6. Detestable Residue: From Psychoanalysis to Blanchot and Lyotard 7. Something (or Nothing) to be Scared of: Meillassoux, Klein, Kristeva 8. Fear of the Open: Resistances of the Public Sphere 9. Lupus (Adler and Freud) Index