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"Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles an array of writings that Cavell left behind, synthesizing into a cohesive intellectual vision unpublished works on modernity, music, skepticism, psychoanalysis, anthropology, tragedy, and the human voice"--

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Author's Preface -- Section I. Lacanian Orientations -- 1. The Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia: An Interview with Eric Laurent -- 2. Lacan - At What Point is he Hegelian? -- 3. The Most Sublime of Hysterics': Hegel with Lacan -- 4. Connections of the Freudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture -- 5. Lacan between Cultural Studies and Cognitivism -- Section II. Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis -- 6. The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis -- 7. A Hair of the Dog that Bit You -- 8. Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows -- 9. The Eclipse of Meaning: On Lacan and Deconstruction -- 10. The Parallax View -- Section III. The Fantasy of Ideology -- 11. Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmatic Spectre: Toward a Lacanian Theory of Ideology -- 12. Beyond Discourse Analysis -- 13. Re-visioning 'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and Its Obscene Double -- 14. Why is Wagner Worth Saving? -- 15. The Real of Sexual Difference -- Author's Afterword: Why Hegel is a Lacanian -- Glossary -- Index

This paper aims to analyze the definition of intelligence that appeared in the book Los Tests (1946) written by BélaSzékely, a Hungarian psychologist who emigrated to Argentina in 1938. Although Székely's work was mainly related to psychoanalysis and child psychology, the publication of this compilation of psychometric tests became one of his most influential works, in which he based his observations on the ideas of Wilhelm Stern, Sigmund Freud, and Alfred Adler. The methodology used in this article is based on a qualitative and interpretative analysis of bibliographical sources from the perspectives of the critical history of psychology and intellectual history in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s. In using this approach, I analyze what other specialists thought of intelligence, in contrast to the ideas presented by Székely. The article approaches the issue first by briefly presenting the author in question, and his position within Hungarian and Argentinian intellectual groups. Then, it studies general understandings of 'intelligence' and 'intellectual level' in Argentina around the time that Székely's book made its first appearance and, finally, it examines to what extent his viewpoint was different. The articulation between epistemological and historical discussions allows us to reflect not only on the transformations present in scientific constructs such as intelligence but also on the implications they had within the scientific community and on a wider social and political level. If intelligence was considered to be a neutral concept, then a mere compilation of tests would be enough for its dissemination. Székely's book made an impact because it contributed to the availability of testing technology, the popularization of said technology, and the intelligence concept.

This article investigates the problematic relationship between psychoanalysis and politics. Specifically, it wonders if an inherent conflict exists between these two domains. If psychoanalysis has as its central object the unconscious, and politics the construction of a relatively stable ego, then how can psychoanalysis productively contribute to the analysis of the democratic political sphere? This article treats this question through an analysis not only of Sigmund Freud's incursions into what he called "a wider social stage" but also of his daughter's particular contributions to the topic. Anna Freud was the official inheritor of the psychoanalytic movement, and it was her task to transform the movement into a stable (political) organization with rules of conduct and of the transmission of knowledge. The author traces this transformation through the debates that surrounded professional psychoanalytic training, in particular through the problem of the so-called training analysis. The institutionalization of psychoanalysis has much to tell us, she argues, about the problems inherent in the institutionalization of politics.

orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-8939.CONICET, UBA, UNLP, Buenos Aires, Argentina. victoria.molinari16@gmail.com ; I wish to thank the anonymous referees of this paper for their suggestions and corrections. I also thank the editorial team of this monographic issue and the attendants of the 38th ESHHS conference for their useful comments. ; This paper aims to analyze the definition of intelligence that appeared in the book Los Tests (1946) written by BélaSzékely, a Hungarian psychologist who emigrated to Argentina in 1938. Although Székely's work was mainly related to psychoanalysis and child psychology, the publication of this compilation of psychometric tests became one of his most influential works, in which he based his observations on the ideas of Wilhelm Stern, Sigmund Freud, and Alfred Adler. The methodology used in this article is based on a qualitative and interpretative analysis of bibliographical sources from the perspectives of the critical history of psychology and intellectual history in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s. In using this approach, I analyze what other specialists thought of intelligence, in contrast to the ideas presented by Székely. The article approaches the issue first by briefly presenting the author in question, and his position within Hungarian and Argentinian intellectual groups. Then, it studies general understandings of 'intelligence' and 'intellectual level' in Argentina around the time that Székely's book made its first appearance and, finally, it examines to what extent his viewpoint was different. The articulation between epistemological and historical discussions allows us to reflect not only on the transformations present in scientific constructs such as intelligence but also on the implications they had within the scientific community and on a wider social and political level. If intelligence was considered to be a neutral concept, then a mere compilation of tests would be enough for its dissemination. Székely's book made an impact because it contributed to the availability of ...

"This volume pursues critical readings of the Bible that put psychoanalysis into conversation with Marxist and postcolonial criticism of the Bible. Psychoanalysis is considered an important tool in understanding how the traumas of colonialism manifest both materially and psychically. Further, psychoanalysis provides a way to mediate between Marxism's materialist groundings and postcolonialism's resistance against empire. The essays in the volume illuminate the way empire has shaped the biblical text, by looking at the biblical texts' silences, ruptures, oversights, over-emphases, and inexplicable elements. These details are read as symptoms of a set of oppressive material relations that shaped and continue to haunt the text in the ascendancy of the text in the name of "the West"--

This article draws on psychoanalysis to theorize artifacts as data in a postsecondary classroom setting. Psychoanalytic theory offers nuanced frames through which to interpret this data. What psychoanalysis alerts us to are the multiple and as such irreducible meanings of experience. Importantly psychoanalysis allows reading of this data for its affective moments. What does it mean for students to bring personal artifacts into a classroom? What sorts of meanings are ascribed to artifacts? What are the layers of narratives that are revealed when students speak to memories of photographs and objects? How might artifact work permit the outside self to be present inside an educational setting and generate a sense of reciprocity?

The book reviews psychoanalytic theory with the aim of developing a evolutionarily feasible model of social behaviour and personality that can help to bridge the gap between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. In bringing together various psychoanalytic theories with aspects of ethology, sociology, and behaviourism, the book seeks to overcome the theoretical impasse faced by cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience in their endeavours to understand how the brain has evolved to organize complex social behaviour in humans. The book is of academic interest, addressing those working in behavioural sciences who want to gather what can be learned from the rich body of psychoanalytic theory for the sake of advancing the goal shared by all behavioural sciences: to elucidate the principles of regulation of social behaviour and personality and understand where and how we can find their neural underpinnings. It advocates that brain-social behaviour relationship can only be understood if we learn from and integrate psychoanalytic insights gained across the last century from clinical work by what are often considered to be rival schools of thought. The book should also be of interest to psychoanalysts looking for a systematic and integrative overview of psychoanalytic theories, an overview that reaches across ego psychology, object relations theory, attachment theory, self psychology, and Lacanian theory. The book is not, however, a critique of psychoanalytic theory or a review of its historical development; it emphasizes consistencies and compatibilities rather than differences between psychoanalytic schools of thought.

This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book argues that, far from having passed, the time for Lacan in Film Studies is only just beginning. The chapters engage with Lacanian psychoanalysis to perform a meta-critical analysis of the writing on noir in the last seven decades and to present an original theory of criticism and historiography for the cinema. The book is also an act of mourning; for a lost past of the cinema, for a longstanding critical tradition and for film noir. It asks how we can talk about film noir when, in fact, film noir doesn't exist. The answer starts with Lacan and a refusal to relinquish psychoanalysis. Lacanian theories of retroactivity and ontology can be read together with film history, genre and narrative to show the ways in which theory and history, past and present, cinema and psychoanalysis are fundamentally knotted together. Tyrer also explores Lacan through particular noir films, such as Double Indemnity andThe Maltese Falcon - and demonstrates the possibilities for a Lacanian Film Studies (as one that engages fully with Lacan's entire body of work) that has hitherto not been realised. Ben Tyrer is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London, UK. His research interests include film theory, film-philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection, titled Psychoanalytic Approaches to Representing the Unrepresentable, and has published work in Studies in French Cinema and Film-Philosophy, as well as several edited collections on psychoanalysis, culture and society. He is also co-coordinator of the Psychoanalysis in Our Time research network, supported by the Nordic Summer University

Revolt, for Julia Kristeva, is not as a singular socio-political moment of breaking away, but as Rosemarie Buikema puts it, "a process of movement and repetition" (Buikema, 2020, 6), "a reversal, a relocation, a transformation, but also a return" (7). The article returns to Kristeva's original approach to revolt. It will first retrace Kristeva's peculiar conceptualisation of this notion; particularly focusing on its psychoanalytical dimension vis-a-vis 'the semiotic' and 'the symbolic'. The article further discuss the limits of revolt's intimate framing and the shortfalls of what we argue is Kristeva's exorcism of the political from the spirit of revolt.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Assemblages and Human History -- 2. Assemblages and the Evolution of Languages -- 3. Assemblages and the Weapons of War -- 4. Assemblages and Scientific Practice -- 5. Assemblages and Virtual Diagrams -- 6. Assemblages and Realist Ontology -- 7. Assemblages as Solutions to Problems -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Marxism after the Discursive Turn -- 3 Jouissance and Politics -- 4 Universality and the Trauma of the Real -- 5 Žižek's Capitalism: What Can Sexual Difference Tell Us about New Forms of Apartheid? -- 6 Žižek's Realpolitics -- 7 The Communist Hypothesis: Žižekian Utopia or Utopian Fantasy? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index