Patricia Gherovici
Auteur de Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
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Patricia Gherovici is an analyst in private practice and founding member and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar. She has published in numerous journals and collections, most recently Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis (Continuum, 2001). She is the afficher plus former director of a mental health clinic in Philadelphia afficher moins
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Transgender Psychoanalysis par Patricia Gherovici
Transgender Psychoanalysis was a stimulating read that covered quite a range of Freudian and Lacanian ideas. I wished there was a bit more coherence between chapters, which at times felt loosely connected, however Gherovici's range of texts, her use of clinical material, and command of Lacanian concepts make this an incredibly worthwhile read. I have a much better appreciation for the liminal space of the drives and was consistently reminded of how much analysands teach the analyst or therapist.
This is an excellent collection that provides a range of perspectives from Latinx analysts and academics. I found the particular attention to the way that psychoanalysis seems full of possibility when traversing boundaries erected in a US context such as assumptions about the class of people who would benefit from an analysis. Ultimately the essays were generative and highlighted my lack of exposure to analytic thinkers from Central and South America.
Comedy and Lacanian theory go pretty well together, sometimes, such as in the work of Slavoj Žižek, who repeatedly uses jokes and humor to punctuate his theoretical examples. In fact, Žižek even has a book of philosophical jokes titled [b:Žižek's Jokes: Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?|18197163|Žižek's Jokes Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?|Slavoj Žižek|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1394406269s/18197163.jpg|25607377].
Nothing in here even remotely reaches the level of Žižek's humor, unfortunately. Manya Steinkoler opens the collection with a reflection on the birth of Isaac ("he who laughs"), but the whole exercise seems curiously flat: surely, there is a difference between laughter due to happiness, and laughter to humor? Dany Nobus makes a nice comparison between Lacan's "gayness" and Nietzsche's "gay science," but the comparison, while enticing, doesn't add up to much. Too many of the theoretical pieces in this book suffered from the same lack of consequence.
A couple of chapters toward the end of Part I dealt with clinical examples of comedy. I am yet to be convinced of the value of clinical analysis: in book after book about Lacan, the weakest and least interesting parts derive from this practice. Strangely, Part II was titled "Comedy on the Couch," even though the chapters here dealt instead with literary examples: Shakespeare, Austen (which I rather liked), and James.
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy is not a bad collection of essays. It's just that it seems to suffer not only from a lack of ambition, but from the fact that so few of its examples exhibit the kind of humor they claim is so essential to Lacanian psychoanalysis.… (plus d'informations)
Nothing in here even remotely reaches the level of Žižek's humor, unfortunately. Manya Steinkoler opens the collection with a reflection on the birth of Isaac ("he who laughs"), but the whole exercise seems curiously flat: surely, there is a difference between laughter due to happiness, and laughter to humor? Dany Nobus makes a nice comparison between Lacan's "gayness" and Nietzsche's "gay science," but the comparison, while enticing, doesn't add up to much. Too many of the theoretical pieces in this book suffered from the same lack of consequence.
A couple of chapters toward the end of Part I dealt with clinical examples of comedy. I am yet to be convinced of the value of clinical analysis: in book after book about Lacan, the weakest and least interesting parts derive from this practice. Strangely, Part II was titled "Comedy on the Couch," even though the chapters here dealt instead with literary examples: Shakespeare, Austen (which I rather liked), and James.
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy is not a bad collection of essays. It's just that it seems to suffer not only from a lack of ambition, but from the fact that so few of its examples exhibit the kind of humor they claim is so essential to Lacanian psychoanalysis.… (plus d'informations)
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