Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt

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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt

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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt

Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Family aims to raise a sophisticated and highly accessible debate around the family, self-making and the political and cultural implications of liberation. The text proposes a new way to read the Lacanian theory of Oedipus and through this reading resituate a series of important political and theoretical debates that have concerned intellectual life over the last forty years. It is written with an accessible style so that both specialists in Lacanian and Marxist theory and a broader cross-section of readers interested in understanding the implications of debates across populist and Marxist perspectives that have occupied the global left since the 2008 economic crash. The text aims to resituate the way theories of emancipation and liberation are theorized from a distinctive psychoanalytic and Lacanian point of view. In resituating the infamous “Oedipus complex” in a new light, the text re-opens a series of debates with important theoreticalinterlocutors, including the influential American historian and psychoanalytic thinker Christopher Lasch, whose thought has witnessed a significant renaissance of interest today, to the staunch critic of Freud and Lacan, René Girard, to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and their widely read Anti-Oedipus series that disputes the Freudian and Lacanian notions of Oedipus.
Daniel Tutt, Ph.D. is Professorial Lecturer in Philosophy at George Washington University, a member of the Lacanian Forum of Washington, DC and an award-winning film producer. His writing has appeared in Historical Materialism, Philosophy Now, and multiple book collections on psychoanalysis and contemporary culture. His research is concerned with the intersection of contemporary politics, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis.





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ISBN 13 9783030940690
ISBN 10 3030940691
Title Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation
Author Daniel Tutt
Series The Palgrave Lacan Series
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Year published 2022-02-13
Number of pages 139
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