Culture/Clinic 1: Applied Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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Culture/Clinic 1 is the first in a new annual series that will spotlight interesting contemporary applications of the work of the renowned psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Each C/C book will revolve around a theme. This premier publication circles a controversial topic: there is no such thing as mental health; there are only symptoms that fit more or less well with prevailing discourses.

This volume considers the difference and proximity between culture and clinic. The first section...

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Overview

Culture/Clinic 1 is the first in a new annual series that will spotlight interesting contemporary applications of the work of the renowned psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Each C/C book will revolve around a theme. This premier publication circles a controversial topic: there is no such thing as mental health; there are only symptoms that fit more or less well with prevailing discourses.

This volume considers the difference and proximity between culture and clinic. The first section delves into the main theme, “We’re All Mad Here,” with three interventions by Lacan, published for the first time in English. Jacques-Alain Miller elucidates Lacan’s idea that “everyone is mad,” demonstrating that it is key to understanding the later Lacan and to clinical practice. Maire Jaanus explores the distinction between happiness and desire. Pierre-Gilles Guéguen brings the perspective of the clinical diagnosis to bear. Russell Grigg reassesses the Wolf Man, Sophie Marret-Maleval pays tribute to Lewis Carroll, and Jonathan D. Redmond constructs a psychoanalytic reading of the film Memento.

“The Analytic Experience” is the second section, in which three analysands reveal their own personal experiences with psychoanalysis. Following this is “Cultural Fictions,” which engages with contemporary culture; included here are chapters on American television by Gérard Wajcman and Laurent Goumarre. Last is “Speaker’s Corner,” which highlights original Lacanian-oriented research in psychoanalysis. This section begins with a new look at the Policlinic, which opened in Berlin in 1920 to make psychoanalysis more widely available to those who could not afford it and led to greater standardization of psychoanalytic training. “Speaker’s Corner” ends with an interview with Ethan Watters, who discusses the culturally determined nature of mental illness and treatments. Both international and interdisciplinary, these essays provide a unique space for global dialogue between the findings of cultural studies and clinical practice.

Contributors: Heather Chamberlain; Laurent Goumarre; Russell Grigg, Deakin U; Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Paris 8 U; David Hafner; France Jaigu; Jacques Lacan; Sophie Marret-Maleval, Paris 8 U; Jonathan D. Redmond, Australian College of Applied Psychology; Laura Sokolowsky; Gérard Wajcman, Paris 8 U.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780816683192
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication date: 4/21/2013
  • Pages: 248
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Jacques-Alain Miller is director of the department of psychoanalysis at Paris 8 University.

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Table of Contents

Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Marie-Hélène Brousse and Maire Jaanus

“We’re All Mad Here”

There Are Four Discourses

Jacques Lacan

Yale University: Lecture on the Body

Jacques Lacan

Columbia University: Lecture on the Symptom

Jacques Lacan

Everyone Is Mad

Jacques-Alain Miller

Happiness and Madness

Maire Jaanus

Who Is Mad and Who Is Not? On Differential Diagnosis in Psychoanalysis

Pierre-Gilles Guéguen

Treating the Wolf Man as a Case of Ordinary Psychosis

Russell Grigg

“And, as in uffish thought he stood”

Sophie Marret-Maleval

Memento: Elementary Phenomena and the Delusion of Interpretation

Jonathan D. Redmond

The Analytic Experience

Entering Analysis

Heather Chamberlain

The Art of Skipping Sessions and the Gift of Anxiety

David Hafner

Two Layers of Time: Experiencing the First Session

France Jaigu

Cultural Fictions

Three Notes to Introduce the Form of the Series

Gérard Wajcman

Quit Laughing. A Sofa Gets Tossed Out!

Laurent Goumarre

Speaker’s Corner

The First Center for Psychoanalytic Consultation

Laura Sokolowsky

An Interview with Ethan Watters, Author of Crazy Like Us

Article Submission and Editorial Inquiries

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