Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst

✍ Scribed by Barnaby B. Barratt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the author
Prefatory note
1. Introducing praxis: why ‘radical’ and why ‘beyond’?
Prolegomenal notes
On the radicality of psychoanalysis
On the project of going beyond
On scurrilous histories
What ‘self’ expresses itself?
2. Free-associative praxis against interpretation
Exploring differences
Defining psychoanalysis
Against conventional approaches to lived-experience
Free-associative ‘attacks’ on certitude
The force of desire against the stases of repetition-compulsivity
3. Notes on becoming a psychoanalyst
Against (trade) schooling
Entering psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and the sense of transition
On functioning as a psychoanalyst
On the vulnerability and fear in becoming a psychoanalyst
4. Psychoanalytic discoveries: sexuality and deathfulness
Ontoethics before and beyond epistemology
Lived-experience and libidinal energies
On ‘falling into’ free-associative speaking
Free-associative awareness and our polysexual humanity
Free-associative listening, awareness and deathfulness
5. The psychoanalytic leap and the necessity of revolution
Critique of the discourse of domination
From transformative imprisonment to transmutative release
On the nonviolent power of transgressive praxis
Notes
Bibliography
Index