{"title":"Elvio Fachinelli","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"on-freud-book-elvio-fachinelli-9780262047203","title":"On Freud","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritings on Freud by Italy's leading psychoanalyst of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Elvio Fachinelli was one of the most original and controversial Italian psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. He viewed psychoanalytic theory as inextricably linked to the concrete experience of everyday reality and as a crucial compass for understanding the social and political turmoil of his era. This compact volume collects Fachinelli's writing on Freud, offering readers both an accessible and engaging introduction to Freud's thinking and an overview of Fachinelli's own main ideas. Written between 1966 and 1989, these essays serve to introduce readers to some of the most provocative aspects of Fachinelli's critiques of psychoanalysis and society.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn Freud\u003c\/i\u003e includes a long essay on Freud that weaves the theoretical foundations of psychoanalysis together with a surprising number of idiosyncratic observations about Freud the person. In it, Fachinelli offers a series of parallax perspectives- Freud the conquistador, who leads psychoanalysis to the exploration of new fields of knowledge; Freud the archaeologist, who discovers antithetical and incongruous elements in the territory of the unconscious; and Freud the Victorian, whose bourgeois values clashed with the revolutionary character of his discovery. Other essays include an assessment of psychoanalysis as a general social phenomenon that is increasingly showing its historical limits; a discussion of an encounter between Freud and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke; Fachinelli's pointed account of Freud's view of psychoanalysis for \"the poor\"; and an examination of the importance of the element of surprise-for both analyst and analysand-in analysis. Without surprise, Fachinelli writes, psychanalysis is just a \"ministering and administering of knowledge, a repetition of the already known.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This edition includes an authoritative survey of Fachinelli's work and insight into how it continues to be relevant today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743382348049,"sku":"NGR9780262047203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53251330703633,"sku":"NIN9780262047203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262047209.jpg?v=1751195390"},{"product_id":"still-arrow-book-elvio-fachinelli-9780857428516","title":"The Still Arrow","description":"Elvio Fachinelli (1928–1989) was a leading Italian psychoanalyst whose clinical, theoretical, and activist work resonated well beyond his discipline. In The Still Arrow, Fachinelli launches an interdisciplinary investigation ranging from anthropology to politics, and from the history of religions to the critique of ideology.    Originally published in 1979, this book displays Fachinelli’s eclectic methodology. The Still Arrow goes against Freud’s attempt in Totem and Taboo to equate individual psycho-libidinal predicaments with those of whole societies. Yet, it argues that the difference between the two always remains one of degree, not of principle. The vexing problem of their relation is approached through an interrogation of time. From a psychoanalytic standpoint, individual obsessional neurosis is firmly connected to a repudiation of death. But, Fachinelli argues, comparable temporal strategies are also present at the group level, in disparate social and historical contexts, for instance, in the archaic transformation of the dead into ancestors and in what he names 'the fascist phenomenon'.   From this perspective, history is not just the sum of all possible histories but also of impossible ones. Fachinelli delineates an innovative knowledge of time which brings together apparently distant events into a characteristic series. This first English translation of a book by Fachinelli, The Still Arrow introduces a major critical European voice to the larger readership.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52435855147281,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52435855343889,"sku":"NGR9780857428516","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780857428516.jpg?v=1759185872"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-elvio-fachinelli.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}