Left for Dead by E J Dionne Jr
Can contemporary psychoanalysis tell us anything about sexuality that is new and clinically meaningful? It most certainly can, answers Muriel Dimen in this work, which seeks to revive Freud's root interest in sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term. Drawing on feminism, postmodernism and contemporary relational theory, Dimen takes a sustained and irreverent look at hallowed assumptions about psychosexuality. For her, the paradigm shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines must now be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. We must return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud's writings, and thereby replace the determinism to which his thought gave rise with contemporary notions of contingency, paradox and thirdness. By setting psychoanalysis, social theory and feminism in conversation - or rather, by unveiling the colloquy that has always taken place among them - Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism and perversion. To this end, she explores, among other topics, the relations between lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian medium is its message. Dimen draws on a variety of disciplines and employs diverse literary styles to delineate the ambiguities, contradictions and paradoxes that subtend sexuality in all its personal and clinical complexity. Of special note is her interweaving of recent psychoanalytic contributions (emerging from both modern Freudian and relational traditions) with insights gleaned from contemporary philosophy and social theory. Dimen's introductory essay historicizes her perspective and modes of expression in terms of the clinical, political and intellectual events of the 1960s and 1970s.
Dionne, E. J.: - E.J. Dionne, Jr., is a bestselling author, a syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Washington Post and nearly a hundred other newspapers, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. His Why Americans Hate Politics won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a nominee for the National Book Award. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio and on other radio and television programs. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Mary Boyle, and their three children.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780684807683 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684807688 |
| Titel | Left for Dead |
| Autor | E J Dionne Jr |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-07-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
| Hinweis | Nicht verfügbar |