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9781782202578 English 1782202579 In this book Jean-Gerard Bursztein presents his reading of psychoanalysis, in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud. He follows the path laid out by the only other psychoanalyst who has offered a comprehensive approach to the discipline, Jacques Lacan. It should be clear that the issue at stake is not to present Freud's or Lacan's theories in their own words. The title of this English translation of Bursztein's work indicates this explicitly: Freud's theory has been transformed. It has been transformed by his immediate followers, some of whom trimmed it down to exclude even the Death drive which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Such transformations may be considered not to be faithful to Freud's discoveries. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, started a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a very fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show that Freud's findings are of the utmost importance for the understanding of subjectivity.", In this book Jean-Gérard Bursztein presents his reading of psychoanalysis, in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud. He follows the path laid out by the only other psychoanalyst who has offered a comprehensive approach to the discipline, Jacques Lacan. It should be clear that the issue at stake is not to present Freud's or Lacan's theories in their own words. The title of this English translation of Bursztein's work indicates this explicitly: Freud's theory has been transformed. It has been transformed by his immediate followers, some of whom trimmed it down to exclude even the Death drive-which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Such transformations may be considered not to be faithful to Freud's discoveries. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, started a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a very fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show that Freud's findings are of the utmost importance for the understanding of subjectivity., Transforming Freudian truth requires a continuous deepening of its object, the unconscious, and a struggle with the formal constraints under which it operates. It was Jacques Lacan's approach. He reformulated this object, the unconscious, associating it with a subjective Topology (genesis, development and modes of functioning). He became Freud's successor. The author presents this object of psychoanalysis using his hypotheses, particularly the hypothesis on the Borromean structure of unconscious and the Moebian structure and reflects on the elements constituting the core of Freudian theory. Psychoanalysis, like every science, becomes more and more complex and formalized at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Despite its unfinished status and necessary transformation, it is important to show its provisional state and grasp its theoretical position at this point.
9781782202578 English 1782202579 In this book Jean-Gerard Bursztein presents his reading of psychoanalysis, in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud. He follows the path laid out by the only other psychoanalyst who has offered a comprehensive approach to the discipline, Jacques Lacan. It should be clear that the issue at stake is not to present Freud's or Lacan's theories in their own words. The title of this English translation of Bursztein's work indicates this explicitly: Freud's theory has been transformed. It has been transformed by his immediate followers, some of whom trimmed it down to exclude even the Death drive which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Such transformations may be considered not to be faithful to Freud's discoveries. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, started a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a very fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show that Freud's findings are of the utmost importance for the understanding of subjectivity.", In this book Jean-Gérard Bursztein presents his reading of psychoanalysis, in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud. He follows the path laid out by the only other psychoanalyst who has offered a comprehensive approach to the discipline, Jacques Lacan. It should be clear that the issue at stake is not to present Freud's or Lacan's theories in their own words. The title of this English translation of Bursztein's work indicates this explicitly: Freud's theory has been transformed. It has been transformed by his immediate followers, some of whom trimmed it down to exclude even the Death drive-which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Such transformations may be considered not to be faithful to Freud's discoveries. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, started a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a very fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show that Freud's findings are of the utmost importance for the understanding of subjectivity., Transforming Freudian truth requires a continuous deepening of its object, the unconscious, and a struggle with the formal constraints under which it operates. It was Jacques Lacan's approach. He reformulated this object, the unconscious, associating it with a subjective Topology (genesis, development and modes of functioning). He became Freud's successor. The author presents this object of psychoanalysis using his hypotheses, particularly the hypothesis on the Borromean structure of unconscious and the Moebian structure and reflects on the elements constituting the core of Freudian theory. Psychoanalysis, like every science, becomes more and more complex and formalized at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Despite its unfinished status and necessary transformation, it is important to show its provisional state and grasp its theoretical position at this point.