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1 online resource (165 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Foreword; 1. The tensions of ambivalence; The benefits of tragedy; From a dream to a social theory; Do this in memory of me ... ; That's (not) the way to do it!; Once upon a time; References; Film references; 2. Why the zombies ate my neighbours; Love and zombies; Freud and zombies; Millenial anxiety and ambivalence; Hypermodern zombie/hypermodern ambivalence; Ambivalence and zombies; References; 3. Raising the dead: Mourning and ambivalence; Zombies and vampires and ghosts, oh my! |
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6. Guilt, shame, and jouissance (and by the way, why your superego is not really your amigo ...)The super-duper-ego; "Sex addiction": a problem with (ahem ...) coming too much; When the going gets tough, the tough go shoplifting; Look at them enjoying!; References; Film references; 7. Extimacy, ambivalence, xenophobia; Because of the ... horse; I am not an animal!; Borderline jouissance (or, Iam not a European); Xenophobic jouissance; Offensive excessive jouissance of the other; References; Film reference; 8. The jouissance of ambivalence: We are not racists, but ... ; How to negate ambivalence (not) |
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US -- loving and dying with ambivalenceReferences; Film references; Afterword; Index |
| Summary |
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love -to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence, with our hatred, is often a recipe for failure. Any attempt, therefore, to love our neighbour as ourselves-or even, for that matter, to love ourselves -must recognise that we love where we hate and we hate where we love. Psychoanalysis, beginning with Freud, has claimed that to be in two minds about something or someone is characteristic of human subjectivity. Owens and Swales trace the concept of ambivalence through its various iterations in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysisin order to question how the contemporary subject deals with its ambivalence. They argue that experiences of ambivalence are, in present-day cultural life, increasingly excised or foreclosed, and that this foreclosure has symptomatic effects at the individual as well as social level. Owens and Swales examine ambivalence as it is at work in mourning, in matters of sexuality, andin our enjoyment under neoliberalism and capitalism. Above all, the authors consider how today's ambivalent subject relates to the racially, religiously, culturally, or sexually different neighbour as a result of the current societal dictate of complete tolerance of the other. In this vein, Owens and Swales argue that ambivalence about one's own jouissance is at the very roots of xenophobia. Peppered with relevant and stimulating examples from clinical work, film, television, politics, and everyday life, Psychoanalysing Ambivalence breathes new life into an old concept and will appeal to any reader, academic, or clinician with an interest in psychoanalytic ideas |
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References4. On letting the right one in: Heisenberg and vampires; Return of the primal father; The jouissance (and bloody ambivalence) of vampires; Vampire vegetarianism or, loving (instead of sucking the blood of) thy neighbour; The remains of oedipal guilt: Make way-yet again-for the primal father; References; Film reference; 5. Guilty secrets (Walter White, Walter Mitty, and the Manosphere) ; Pale criminals; Oedipal law and ambivalence; Walter mitty-guilty thoughts (and other fake news) ; Oedipus in the Manosphere; References; Film reference |
| Notes |
Carol Owens, Ph. D., is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic scholar in Dublin, Ireland. She edited The Letter: Perspectives in Lacanian Psychoanalysis (2003-2008), Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child (with Farrelly Quinn, Routledge, 2017) and Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire (with Nadezhda Almqvist, Routledge, 2019). She is the series editor for the newly establishedRoutledge series, Studying Lacan's Seminars. Stephanie Swales, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas, USA, a practicing psychoanalyst, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a clinical supervisor located in Dallas, Texas. Her first book, Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject, was published by Routledge in 2012 |
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Ambivalence.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis -- Case studies
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psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
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Ambivalence
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Psychoanalysis
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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Owens, Carol (Psychoanalyst)
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Swales, Stephanie
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| ISBN |
9780429828355 |
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0429828357 |
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9780429448652 |
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0429448651 |
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9780429828348 |
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0429828349 |
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9780429828331 |
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0429828330 |
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