Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy’s Other Scenes

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Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes is an innovative work that places the fields of psychoanalysis and rhetoric in dynamic resonance with one another. The book operates according to a compelling interdisciplinary conceit: Adleman provocatively explores the psychoanalytic aspects of rhetoric and Vanderwees probes the rhetorical dimensions of psychoanalytic practice. This thoroughly researched text takes a closer look at the "missed encounter" between rhetoric and psychoanalysis. The first section of the book explores the massive, but underappreciated, influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Kenneth Burke’s "new rhetoric." The book’s second section undertakes sustained investigations into the rhetorical dimensions of psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, free association, and listening. Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric then culminates in a more comprehensive discussion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of Kenneth Burke’s new rhetoric. The book therefore serves as an invaluable aperture to the fields of psychoanalysis and rhetoric, including their much overlooked disciplinary entanglement. Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric will be of great interest to scholars of psychoanalytic studies, rhetoric, language studies, semiotics, media studies, and communication studies. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgements About the Authors Abbreviations Introduction: Missed Encounters 1. The Rhetorical Unconscious: Reconciling Rival Topographies 2. Burke’s Little Affect A 3. Identification, Disidentification, Scapegoating, and War 4. Beyond the Pressure Principle: Disorientation, Debunking, and Conspiracy 5. Charcot and Freud: From Clinical Gaze to Free Association 6. All Ears: Psychoanalysis and the Rhetoric of Listening 7. Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Rhetoric: The Power of Non-Understanding References Index