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Psychoanalysing ambivalence with Freud and Lacanon and off the couch /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Psychoanalysing ambivalence with Freud and LacanStephanie Swales and Carol Owens.
Reminder of title:	on and off the couch /
Author:	Swales, Stephanie S.
other author:	Owens, Carol
Published:	Milton :Routledge,2020.
Description:	1 online resource (165 p.)
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
Subject:	Ambivalence.
Online resource:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429448652
ISBN:	9780429828355

Psychoanalysing ambivalence with Freud and Lacanon and off the couch /
Swales, Stephanie S.

Psychoanalysing ambivalence with Freud and Lacanon and off the couch /[electronic resource] :Stephanie Swales and Carol Owens. - Milton :Routledge,2020. - 1 online resource (165 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.

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 memoryof 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!

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 variousiterations 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.

ISBN: 9780429828355Subjects--Topical Terms:

533310
Ambivalence.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BF575.A45

Dewey Class. No.: 128.4

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