The Unconscious: Contemporary Refractions In Psychoanalysis

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Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Introduction Part I The unconscious is everywhere, and nowhere Chapter 1 From out of nowhere—The paradox of unconscious experience The unconscious is nowhere The analytic space: The Adventures of Tom and Jerry No hands to no mouth Entanglements The Lone Ranger as the unconscious? Note References Eistein’s elsewhere: Discussion of Wilner Chapter 2 Into the frog swamp: Jungian conceptions of the unconscious in practice Case presentation In the frog swamp: Jung’s The Red Book experiences References Freud and Jung: Submission and surrender to the unconscious: Discussion of Monhart References Part II Power and the social unconscious Chapter 3 Enactment, power, or play in Jessica Benjamin’s clinical theory References Chapter 4 The power principle: The shame of the father or the emperor’s new clothes Introduction The self as father: Born through relationship The interpersonal field Rovelli’s quantum perspective Kohut’s idealizing selfobject The paternal principle The Babadook and father hunger Lacan’s le nom-du-père The paternal principle and the transference illusion The Gschnas The impotent father The Oedipus complex and the father: The other side Laius complex Lacan’s square root of minus one Womb envy The fading patriarchy The ancients Vatersehnsucht Castrating paternity The relational turn Enter Trump Paternal omnipotence The fathers: The paternal bastion Hank John Russ Karl Conclusion Epilogue Acknowledgments References Chapter 5 Enacting identity: Normative unconscious processes in clinic and culture The social construction of identities Identities as performative Enactment and the effects of the social Normative unconscious processes Enactment, co-construction, and the analyst’s complicity Social character and neoliberalism References The sexual unconscious in tension with normative unconscious processes: Discussion of Layton ‘The unconscious’ versus ‘unconscious processes’ Conclusion References Part III Language, the sexual, and the unconscious Chapter 6 Introduction to a Lacivanian idiolect Introduction Lacan’s unconscious Nature’s signifiers Between perception and consciousness Refinding subjectivity The navel of the unknown The juncture with the real Anxiety Sullivan’s anxiety The prototaxic mode and nature’s signifiers Severe anxiety and the real The parataxic mode and signification Back to the navel of the dream The syntactic mode and the unconscious as a gap Clinical applications: The expert as hollowed out analyst Notes References Are Lacan and Sullivan linked by their conceptions of anxiety and the unassimilable? Discussion of Sauvayre and Hunyady References Chapter 7 Après-Coup The distinction between psychic trauma and physical trauma The distinction between instinct and drive The distinction between infantile sexuality and sexuality as a whole References How the world becomes bigger; implantation, intromission, and the après-coup: Discussion of House Translations: How, when, and by whom The crafting of translation Meaning-making goes astray Notes Bibliography Index