Why Psychoanalysis?

Since its founder Freud, psychoanalysis has sometimes been accused of "biologism" and "scientism" and sometimes of "cultural relativism". Most of these criticisms carry the implicit belief that "why does psychoanalysis try to explain everything if it should mind its own business?", and they want to limit psychoanalysis as a clinical treatment practice.

However, according to Alenka Zupancic, the subject of psychoanalysis is exactly where the biological (bodily) and the mental and cultural overlap. For this reason, psychoanalysis owes its real power and efficiency to the dialogue it establishes with other "disciplines" or fields. Psychoanalysis is never about individuals and their problems that can be considered private: There is a basic vein of psychoanalysis that refuses to make the individual compatible with society in order to cure and to be the "guarantor of the bourgeois dream".

Why Psychoanalysis's "three interventions" in the fields of ontology, practical philosophy and aesthetics aim to clarify this vein and explain what psychoanalysis's theory of sexuality really is, what psychoanalysis means for our existence, what kind of relationship the Lacanian concept of "why" has with freedom, very different from each other. , and even clarifies what kind of commonality two seemingly opposite aesthetic phenomena, "comedy" and "uncanny", have.



Number of Pages: 88

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 88

Language Turkish