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...Psychoanalysis This chapter responds to Žižek’s insightful and detailed critical analysis of the current neurobiological and neuro-psychoanalytic redefinition of the unconscious. In doing so, it examines and reproaches Žižek’s own position as developed in his The Parallax View , where he...

... Lecture 16, “Psychoanalysis and Freud,” begins with a brief overview of Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, followed by his often revolutionary contributions to the theories of subjectivity and psychic life, sexuality, repression and the Unconscious, interpretation of dreamwork...

...Psychoanalysis <italic>and the</italic> Declensions of Verisimilitude ...

... This chapter explores the limits and uses of psychoanalysis for the practice of critical history. The argument is that Freud’s insistence on the ultimate indeterminacy of our knowledge is the best guarantee we have of practicing critique. Freud suggested that the pursuit of knowledge...

...The Other Side of Psychoanalysis ...

... This chapter positions the analysis as the team initiated its investigation alongside Mamerto Pizarro's corpse, as relatives sang laments. It juxtaposes Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" and psychoanalytic work on mourning with laments. Psychoanalysis prompts reflection on the alternation...

... The shared insights of psychoanalysis and the Afro-Atlantic religions are used here to highlight the ambivalent nature of the empowered things at the core of the social organizations constituted by both psychoanalysis and the Afro-Atlantic religions. This chapter explores the meaning...