Description
| Product ID: | 9781781688854 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Radical Thinkers |
| Title: | The Weary Sons of Freud |
| Authors: | Author: Catherine Clement, Nicole Ball |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Feminism and feminist theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Political activism / Political engagement, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Political activism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients’ condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clément contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers—the weary sons of Freud. The analyst’s once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-06-09 |
