Why Psychoanalysis by Alenka Zupančič
This book offers a spirited defense and rethinking of psychoanalysis as a distinctive mode of inquiry and ethical practice that confronts the real of human desire and enjoyment rather than reducing subjectivity to neuroscience or commonsense psychology. Drawing on Lacanian concepts, it shows how symptoms, repetition, and transference are not merely pathologies to be eliminated but clues to a subject’s truth and ways of relating to one’s desire; psychoanalysis thus reveals limits of knowledge, challenges ideological comforts, and proposes a way of living that takes seriously the ineradicable dimension of jouissance. By situating psychoanalytic practice in relation to philosophy, ethics, and contemporary culture, the work argues that its radical insight into the structure of subjectivity has enduring political and theoretical importance.
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