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Returns of the "French Freud" examines the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical history. The list of contributors includes Paul Roazen, Francois Roustang, John Forrester, Rodolphe Gasche, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Jacques Derrida.

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Creating a snapshot of current thinking about psychoanalysis, this lively collection examines the legacy of Freud and Lacan. Through provocative and penetrating arguments, the contributors take psychoanalysis to task for 0ts dark view of human nature, theoretical sorcery, devaluation of femininity, self-referentiality, discipleship, negativity, ignorance of history and more. The essays also examine the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical history. The outstanding list of contributors includes Paul Roazen, Francois Roustang, John Forrester, Rodolphe Gasche, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Jacques Derrida.

Author Biography

Todd Dufresne teaches at and is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto. His work has appeared in TheInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis, PsychoanalyticBooks and The Psychoanalytic Review.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Todd Dufresne; Chapter 2 Nietzsche, freud, and the history of psychoanalysis, Paul Roazen; Chapter 3 Sublimation: necessity and impossibility, François Roustang, Sophie Thomas; Chapter 4 Fear of birth: freud's femininity, Kelly Oliver; Chapter 5 Can the phallus stand, or should it be stood up?, Tina Chanter; Chapter 6 Lacan's debt to freud: how the ratman paid off his debt, John Forrester; Chapter 7 Lacan, sure—and then what?, Daniel Bougnoux, John Caruana, Charles Dudas; Chapter 8 "Mac", Gary Genosko; Chapter 9 Freud and his followers, or how psychoanalysis brings out the worst in everyone, Todd Dufresne; Chapter 10 "To do justice to freud": the history of madness in the age of psychoanalysis, Jacques Derrida, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas; Chapter 11 The witch metapsychology, Rodolphe Gasché, Julian Patrick; Chapter 12 Basta così!: mikkel borch-jacobsen on psychoanalysis and philosophy, Chris Oakley;

Review

"Give[s] us new perspectives on psychoanalysis, Lacan, and French intellectual history... A remarkably diverse group of able historians, analysts, and philosophers." -- The Boston Book Review

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