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Rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought togetherAs calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view.Morgan Wortham also reveals a new theory of phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary political analysis.Key FeaturesReassesses the reception of psychoanalysis within the continental tradition to reconfigure contemporary theoretical debates Provides the broader context of the history of psychoanalysisOffers new ways of thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy and politicsAddresses a range of thinkers including Kant, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Arendt, Fanon, Derrida, Lyotard, Balibar, Malabou and Žižek

'Original and provocative . . . engagingly written. (C Fred Alford) counters Levinas's notorious obscurity with a goodly dose of transparency' - John Lechte, Macquarrie University Abstract and evocative, writing in what can only be described as the language of prophecy, Emmanuel Levinas has become everything to everyone. We pretend we get it, writing in much the same style, so as to say whatever we wanted to say in the first place. The 'Levinas Effect' it has been called, the ability of Levinas's texts to say anything the reader wants to hear, so that Levinas becomes

The figure of the primitive : a brief genealogy -- Psychoanalysis and the colonial imagination : evolutionary thought in Freud's texts -- Race and gender, primitivity and femininity : psychologies of enthrallment -- Historicizing consciousness : time, history and religion -- Race and primitivity in the clinical encounter.

Introduction: in or against psychology? -- Marxian psychologies -- Marx and Freud -- From psychoanalysis to psychologisation -- Psychology and its critique in Marxism -- Marxist psychologies -- Marxism, psychoanalysis and critique of psychology -- Towards a critical metapsychology -- Critique as praxis

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Work of Mourning -- The Absent Father -- The Drama of Oedipus the King -- Reaching for Universal Truth -- The Father, Today -- Part I: Freud Discovers Oedipus -- Chapter 2: The Road to Thebes: Freud and French Retrospective Medicine -- The Scholar's Lament -- Medical Republicanism and Retrospective Medicine at the Salpêtrière -- Enter Oedipus -- Back to Vernant -- Chapter 3: The Dawn of the Oedipus Complex: A Tale of Two Letters -- Part II: The Oedipus Complex After Freud -- Chapter 4: Freud's Oedipal Myth and Lacan's Critique -- Hamlet -- Schreber -- Chapter 5: Deleuze-Guattari and the End of Oedipus -- Chapter 6: The Nuclear Family and Its Discontents: Freud, Jung, and Szondi and the Persistence of the Dynasty -- Two Prehistories -- Psychoanalysis and the Dynastic Imagination -- Jung, the Crown Prince -- Anna Freud, the Athena -- The Dynastic Unconscious: Léopold Szondi's "Fate Analysis" -- Part III: Private and Public Fathers -- Chapter 7: Black Fathers, Oedipal Issues, and Modernity -- Thesis -- Modifications of the Classic Oedipal Complex -- The Culturally "White Father" -- Arising Conflicts -- Social Aspects of the Oedipal -- Capitalism and the Issue of Resources -- Black Fathers and Oedipal Issues -- A Case Vignette -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Does a Father Need to be a Man? -- Sexual Determinants of Procreation -- The Problem with Father -- "Push-towards-Woman," Effect of the Irruption of One-Father -- Between Man and Woman, Husband -- Reparatory Symptoms -- Beyond Oedipus, Woman -- A Trans-Parent -- Chapter 9: Blindness and Repair in Institutional Psychoanalysis: A Brief History -- Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality.

This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book tackles the widespread perception of psychoanalysis today as a discipline detached from the progressive ideals of social responsibility, institutional psychotherapy, and community mental health. Bringing together a range of international contributions, the collection explores issues of class, politics, oppression, and resistance within the field of psychoanalysis in cultural, theoretical, and clinical contexts. It shows how, in contrast to this misperception, psychoanalysis has been attentive to these ideals from its origins, as well as demonstrating how it continues to be relevant today, through wide-ranging conceptual discussions of the anti-globalization, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo movements. Written in an accessible style, Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance will be essential reading for practicing psychoanalysts as well as academics and students in a range of humanities and social sciences fields.

Rethinks objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and Marxism – beyond the realism–nominalism divideRethinks the concept of objectivity through its relation to fiction beyond their mere oppositionConceptualises 'objective fictions'Highlights a shared background underpinning realist and nominalist approaches to the relation between subjectivity and objectivityRevitalises modern/contemporary philosophical currents, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist critique of political economy beyond the realism-nominalism divideIncludes contributions from a mix of renowned thinkers and from the new generation, including Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar, Frank Ruda and Samo TomšičRelying on contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and the Marxist tradition, this volume moves beyond the deadlock between nominalism and realism. It rethinks the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies, and conspiracy theories, among other phenomena. What all these phenomena exhibit are paradoxical entanglements of subjectivity with objectivity and of fiction with truth.When it comes to questions of objectivity in current philosophical debates and public discourse, we are witnessing the re-emergence and growing importance of two classical, opposed approaches: nominalism and (metaphysical) realism. Today's nominalist stances, by absolutizing intersubjectivity, are moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective reality. By contrast, today's realist positions, including those bound up with scientific discourse, insist on the category of the object-in-itself as irreducible to any kind of subjective mediation. However, despite their seeming mutual exclusivity, both approaches share fundamental presuppositions, namely, those of neat separations between the spheres of subjectivity and objectivity as well as between the realms of fiction and truth.

Introduction -- The libido wars -- Homophobia's durability and the reinvention of psychoanalysis -- Post-Holocaust antisemitism and the ascent of PTSD -- The struggle between eros and death -- Exploding Oedipus -- Ethnopsychoanalysis in the era of decolonization -- Afterword