Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis - 9780367415518

Taylor & Francis

Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in PsychoanalysisFreud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void\nAuthor(s): Touria Mignotte\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367415518, 978-0367415518\nSynopsis\nIn Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that cruelty structures the living just as much as the unconscious, and makes it possible to integrate the main psychoanalytic currents, notably Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, Klein, and the thinkers of autism, while renewing the place of psychoanalysis as a human science.\n\nThe life sciences have given us an insight into the murderous struggles that unfold before the primitive environment consents to the emergence of life as a \""primary destructive impulse.\"" This book offers a deep exploration of this primitive cruelty and .