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In this passionately written and controversial book, first published in 1978, Catherine Clement, Communist, feminist and analysand, asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become. She attacks psychoanalysis as an institution disdainful of treatment and cure, serving the interests of a new intelligentsia, the nouveaux riches of a narcissistic literary culture and publishing industry. Contrasting the insights of psychoanalytic theory to the obsessive imitations of Jacques Lacan by those who followed him as a practitioner-trainer, she offers an anthropological perspective and a political critique of Parisian psychoanalysis as a profession. How has the attentive ear of the analyst become deaf to questions about the social and political meaning of his or her work? Does a woman who is both a socialist and analysand necessarily hear such questions more clearly and answer them differently? Clement reflects on her own history, the history of psychoanalysis and the history of the French left to demonstrate what an activist and feminist restoration of psychoanalysis could be.
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"A work of ferocious humour and loving spite. What, she asks herself (and us) loud and direct, are psychoanalysts for?" --"La Nouvel Observateur"
"Brilliantly written ... to be read in one sitting ..." --"Le Monde"
A work of ferocious humour and loving spite. What, she asks herself (and us) loud and direct, are psychoanalysts for? "La Nouvel Observateur"
Brilliantly written ... to be read in one sitting ... "Le Monde""
About the Author
Catherine Clement teaches philosophy at the University of Paris. She writes for Le Martin and is on the editorial boards of L'Arc and La Nouvelle Critique. Her other books include Miroirs du sujet and (with Lucien Seve and Pierre Bruno) Pour une critique Marxists de la theorie psychanalytique.
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- PublisherVerso Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0860911772
- ISBN 13 9780860911777
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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