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In contrast to the way inheritance is understood in scientific discourse and culture more broadly, inheritance in psychoanalysis is a paradox. Although it's impossible, strictly speaking, for the unconscious to be inherited, this volume demonstrates how the concept of inheritance can occasion a rich reassessment and reinvention of psychoanalytic theory and practice. The collection enacts a critical traversal of inheritance for psychoanalysis: from the most basic assumptions of natural or biological inheritance, such as innateness, heredity, evolution, and ontogenesis, to analysis of the ways cultural traditions can be challenged and transformed, and finally to the reinvention of psychoanalytic practice, in which the ethics of inheritance is fully realized as the individual's responsibility to transform the social bond. Featuring strong interdisciplinary analysis rooted in both psychoanalysis and philosophy, this volume further engages science, politics, and cultural studies, and addresses contemporary political challenges such as autism and transgenderism.

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Author:   Joel Goldbach ,  James A. Godley
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438467870

ISBN 10:   1438467877
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Inheritance in Psychoanalysis James A. Godley NATURAL INHERITANCE 1. Against Heredity: The Question of Causality in Psychoanalysis Samo Tomšič 2. Lacan with Evo- Devo? Lorenzo Chiesa 3. The Late Innate: Jean Laplanche, Jaak Panksepp, and the Distinction between Sexual Drives and Instincts Adrian Johnston 4. Hegel’s Mother Frank Ruda 5. Biopower in Lacan’s Inheritance; or, From Foucault to Freud, via Deleuze, and Back to Marx A. Kiarina Kordela CULTURAL INHERITANCE 6. Drug Is the Love: Literature, Psychopharmacology, Psychoanalysis Justin Clemens 7. Testament of the Revolution (Walter Benjamin) Rebecca Comay 8. “We” and “They”: Animals behind Our Back Oxana Timofeeva 9. F. O. Matthiessen: Heir to (American) Jouissance Donald E. Pease 10. A Mortimer Trap: The Passing of Death in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight Sigi Jottkandt 11. Freud Fainted; or, “It All Started 1000s of Years Ago in Egypt . . .” Lydia R. Kerr THE INHERITANCE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS 12. Freud’s Lamarckian Clinic Daniel Wilson 13. Freud against Oedipus? Philippe Van Haute 14. Plastic Sex? The Beauty of It! Patricia Gherovici 15. The Autistic Body and Its Objects Eric Laurent 16. The Insistence of Jouissance: On Inheritance and Psychoanalysis Joan Copjec with James A. Godley About the Contributors Index

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Joel Goldbach is a recent graduate of the PhD program in English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. James A. Godley is a recent graduate of the PhD program in English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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