Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Titre : | Having a life : self-pathology after Lacan |
Auteurs : | / Lewis A. KIRSHNER |
Editeur : | Hillsdale (New Jersey) : Analytic Press, 2004 |
Importance : | 157 p. |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-88163-401-3 |
Format : | 157 p. / 23 cm |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Psychologie du self ; Intersubjectivité ; LACAN, Jacques ; LITTLE, Margaret I. ; Sujet ; Affect ; Traumatisme ; Dépression ; Objet petit a ; ALTHUSSER, Louis |
Résumé : |
What is it about "having a life" – which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self – that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After Lacan Lewis Kirshner takes this Lacanian question as the point of departure for a thoughtful meditation on the conceptual problems and clinical manifestations of self pathology. Beginning with the case of Margaret Little, analyzed by D. W. Winnicott, and proceeding to extended case presentations for his own practice, Kirshner weaves together his avowedly American reading of Lacan with the understanding of self pathology offered by an influential coterie of theorists – D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Arnold Modell, and André Green. These theorists, be it noted, barely comment on each other’s work. By skillfully drawing out common threads in their respective discourses on the self, Kirshner achieves, among other things, an original integration of Lacanian theory with other contemporary approaches to self pathology as it emerges in psychoanalytic treatment. Of special note is his ability to maintain a dialogue between Lacan and Kohut, whose shared clinical object, discernible through divergent vocabularies and theories, is protection of the self from a sense of fragmentation that obliterates a sense of aliveness and precludes active engagement in the world. Kirshner’s opening chapter on the gifted, disturbed Margaret Little and his concluding chapter on the eminent political philosopher Louis Althusser, whose self pathology culminated in his strangling of his wife, Helene Rytman, in 1980, bracket a study that is brilliantly successful in bringing "self" issues down to the messy actualities of lived experience. Analytic therapists no less than students of the human sciences will be edified by this cogent, readable attempt to infuse Lacanian concepts with the conceptual rigor and clinical pragmatism of American psychoanalysis and to apply the resulting model of therapeutic encounter to a fascinating range of case material. |
Note de contenu : | Bibliographie, index |
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