Dana Amir

Psychoanalysis on the Verge of Language

Clinical Cases on the Edge

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the importance of language and writing in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and an understanding of how language works can give a deeper insight into the psyche in clinical practice and everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781032046488
• ISBN-10: 1032046481
• Artikelnr.: 62227712

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, supervising and training analyst at the Israel psychoanalytic society, full professor and head of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in psychoanalysis at Haifa University, editor of Maarag - the Israel Annual of Psychoanalysis (the Hebrew University), poetess and literature researcher. Her previous non-fiction books are: Cleft Tongue (Karnac Books, 2014); On the Lyricism of the mind (Routledge, 2016); Bearing Witness to the Witness (Routledge, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Aner Govrin. Prologue: The Body is All Ears 1. Tonality and
Atonality in the Psychic Space 2. The Malignant Ambiguity of Incestuous
Language 3. The Two Sleeps of Orlando: Gender Crossing as Caesura or Cut 4.
The Metaphorical, the Metonymical and the Psychotic Aspects of Obsessive
Symptomatology 5. 'Screen Confessions': A Fresh Analysis of Perpetrators'
'Newspeak.' 6. Epilogue: "Studium" and "Punctum" in Psychoanalytic Writing:
Reading Case Stories through Roland Barthe