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Canestri, Jorge - The Babel of the Unconscious
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The book explores the authors' experiences concerning the vast and complex theme of 'Polylingualism in psychoanalysis'. The issue of polylingualism and polyglotism reintroduces some general psychoanalytic hypotheses.
For instance: is the nature of the unconscious predominantly pre-verbal, or is it structured as a language? What occurs if some languages are known since very early childhood, and belong to a pre-symbolic structural patrimony closely bound to bodily sensations and concrete experiences? How does the learning of new languages, later on, affect or modify thought processes? How do new and old unconscious 'thing' and 'word' representations interact with each other? What are the related problems regarding repression and memory? Our paper illustrates and discusses problems of communication and comprehension within the clinical situation, in cases when the analytic language is not the mother-tongue of the analyst, or of the patient, or of either of them.
- ISBN-10: 0823605302
- ISBN-13: 978-0823605309
Rhudinesco, Elisabeth Lacan: In Spite Of Everything
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Publisher: Verso; Tra edition (March 18, 2014)
ISBN-10: 1781681627 ISBN-13: 978-1781681626
Translating Angst: Inhibitions and Symptoms in Anglo-American Psychoanalysis By Fernando Castrillón
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Very interesting essay where the author explores the issue of the (mis)translation of Freud’s texts into English and the consequences this has had for the actual practice of psychoanalysis in the English speaking world. Specifically for the understanding of the Lacanian perspective.
He tackles the issue of the translation of Freud’s texts into English. Specifically, why is it that Freud’s Angst was translated as anxiety in English, instead of anguish or even angst itself, terms which actually exist in English.
Read it HERE
Castrillón, F. (2014). Translating Angst: Inhibitions and Symptoms in Anglo-American Psychoanalysis. European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Borossa, Julia. The New Klein - Lacan Dialogues
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This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of psychoanalysis in the wake of Freud has been profound and far-reaching. Whilst the centrality of the unconscious is a strong conviction shared by both Klein and Lacan, there are also many differences between the two schools of thought and the clinical work that is produced in each. The purpose of this collection is to take seriously these similarities and differences.
Deeply relevant to both theoretical reflection and clinical work, the New Klein-Lacan Dialogues should make interesting reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, mental health professionals, scholars and all those who wish to know more about these two leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis.
The collection centres around key concepts such as: 'symbolic function', the 'ego', the 'object', the 'body', 'trauma', 'autism', 'affect' and 'history and archives'. The authors are internationally renowned writers and clinicians and include: Eva Bahovec, Lionel Bailly, Rachel Blass, Ronald Britton, Catalina Bronstein, Bernard Burgoyne, Robert Hinshelwood, Roberto Ileyassoff, Marie-Christine Laznik, Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros, Catherine Mathelin-Vanier, Maria Rhode, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Richard Rusbridger, Michael Rustin , Paul Verhaeghe and Marcus Vieria.
Re-opening a dialogue first attempted with great success in 1995 ('The Klein-Lacan Dialogues', organised by Catalina Bronstein and Bernard Burgoyne), this book is based on a new international seminar series collaboratively organised by colleagues at UCL, Middlesex University, and the Royal College of Art and held in 2011 under the auspices of the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit.
Edited by
Julia Borossa, Catalina Bronstein,
and Claire Pajaczkowska
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