Psychoanalysis, Science and Masculinity - Couverture souple

Figlio, Karl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861562039 ISBN 13 : 9781861562036

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2000

Synopsis

The purpose of the Whurr series in Psychoanalysis edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target of University College London, is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended. The readership is academic and graduate students in psychoanalysis, togetherr with clinical practitioners, in Europe, North America and indeed worldwide.

This book is a psychoanalytic exploration of the need to know in Western culture. It argues that this need is expressed by the relentless drive of science to get to the source of all phenomena. But the profound reach into the interior of nature is accompanied by primitive unconscious phantasies of mastery, of knowing as making, of masculine intrusion into nature’s creativity and of nature’s retaliation and deterioration. Science becomes a tool of domination and a suspect magical enterprise. Benign nature becomes an ominous nature. As a result, the need to know becomes a moral quest, in which science unconsciously researches into the internal world of our intentions, externalised into the world of the phenomena that it investigates. The book also argues that the masculine domination of nature typically understood as phallic mastery has roots in a phantasy mediated by semen, in which the male identifies with and replicates the sources of life.

These themes are addressed in a Kleinian psychoanalytic framework, using clinical, mythological, anthropological and historical material.

A propos du livre

This book is a psychoanalytic exploration of the need to know inWestern culture. It argues that this need is expressed by therelentless drive of science to get to the source of all phenomena.But the profound reach into the interior of nature is accompaniedby primitive unconscious phantasies of mastery, of knowing asmaking, of masculine intrusion into nature s creativity andof nature s retaliation and deterioration. Science becomes atool of domination and a suspect magical enterprise. Benign naturebecomes an ominous nature. As a result, the need to know becomes amoral quest, in which science unconsciously researches into theinternal world of our intentions, externalised into the world ofthe phenomena that it investigates. The book also argues that themasculine domination of nature typically understood as phallicmastery has roots in a phantasy mediated by semen, in which themale identifies with and replicates the sources of life.

These themes are addressed in a Kleinian psychoanalyticframework, using clinical, mythological, anthropological andhistorical material.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861562039
• ISBN 13: 9781861562036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible