Exigent Psychoanalysis by Gila Ashtor

Exigent Psychoanalysis by Gila Ashtor

Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche offers a bold exploration of the contemporary psychoanalytic field by focusing on key issues through the lens of one of this century's most exacting and invigorating psychoanalytic theorists.

"Exigent Psychoanalysis offers a brilliant and erudite argument for a profound transformation of psychoanalytic theory in light of Laplanche's revolutionary projectAshtor’s compelling case for Laplanche’s theory underscores the importance of his radical insistence on the Copernican revolution within Freud’s thought—the fact that we develop a mind by revolving around others whose unconscious communications live as an other within. Readers will be engrossed and enlightened by Ashtor’s wide-ranging, acute exposition of the links between our new theorizing of affect and the Laplanchian task of revising the foundations of metapsychology."

Jessica Benjamin, author of Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third

"Laplanche 'puts Freud to work'. Ashtor puts Laplanche to work. Laplanche’s object is Freud. His close reading and critique of Freud’s writing reveals what is implicit and potential developments. Ashtor’s object is US psychoanalysis, its development, conflicts and splits. Her object is well chosen. For 50 years after Freud’s death, Anglophone psychoanalysis was dominant. Freud’s writing was known through the Standard Edition; US and UK analysts filled the journals, the thinking of European and Latin American colleagues was largely known in English translation. With rigor and pleasing clarity, Ashtor explains past and current controversies – including their origin in Freud – wisely focusing on sexuality, metapsychology, motivation and the structure of the mind."

Jonathan House

"Ashtor’s book will be widely anticipated, once it's announced that it's coming, and widely read when it arrives. It is incredibly timely, and I feel confident in its depth and astuteness."

Donnel Stern

Gila Ashtor is a critical theorist, psychoanalyst and writer. She teaches at Columbia University and is in private practice in New York City. She trained at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City and is an editor at Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Most recently, Gila's book Homo Psyche was made a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

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ISBN 13	9781032039770
ISBN 10	1032039779
Title	Exigent Psychoanalysis
Author	Gila Ashtor
Series	Psychoanalysis In A New Key Book Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2021-08-17
Number of pages	190
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