Lacan on Depression and Melancholia
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-10653-3 (ISBN)
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia considers how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.
The contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts – such as object a, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation – as demonstrated via a variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis.
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory.
Derek Hook is an Associate Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA, and a Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Stijn Vanheule is a clinical psychologist and a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis.
List of contributors
Introduction: The failings of depression - A Lacanian orientation
Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule
Depression reconsidered: The well-spoken, neurotic conflicts, and desire
Stephanie Swales
In between the signifier and the Real: On depressive experiences
Stijn Vanheule
Forgetting and remembering
Russell Grigg
Some thoughts on Mourning and Melancholia
Darian Leader
Conceptualizing and treating (manic-depressive) psychosis: A Lacanian perspective
Stijn Vanheule
Maneuvers of transference in psychosis: A case study of melancholia from a Lacanian perspective
Joachim Cauwe and Stijn Vanheule
The complex of melancholia
Derek Hook
Susan Stern: Sham
Geneviève Morel
Excessive creativity in melancholia
Leon S. Brenner
Dressing up the death drive: Mourning as a defense against melancholia
Jamieson Webster and Patricia Gherovici
The specificity of manic-depressive psychosis
Darian Leader
Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public health
Thomas Svolos
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 900 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-10653-0 / 1032106530 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-10653-3 / 9781032106533 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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