Stories from the Bog

On Madness, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3487-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies

This collection of short stories and essays call into question the medical-scientific narrative, its understandings of psychoanalysis and madness, and the identity, purpose and ethics that flow from and sustain its narrative. These stories are gathered from meetings with people on in-patient units and in private practice. Emphasis is placed on the centrality of the Freudian unconscious in the process of listening, understanding and responding in the analytic discourse. Collectively, they reintroduce the identity of the analytic practitioner as the shaman of contemporary times, a mind-poet who sees the world through a magical –as opposed to a scientific- visionary experience.

“With a wry humour and piercing intellect, Dr. Kavanaugh’s Stories from the Bog…, evokes the Celtic legacy of story-telling in psychoanalysis.”
-David L. Downing

“A scintillating book that dances on edges of the human mind. At once, challenging, reflective and enriched by details of therapeutic work.”
-Michael Eigen, Author, Contact With the Depths

“Dr. Kavanaugh captures the essence of the psychoanalytic enterprise. … this book is a work of psychoanalytic art by one of its most creative practitioners.”

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Stories From the Bog: On the Underworld, the Underconsciousness, and the Undertaking
The Dead Poets Society: Ventures into a Radioactive Psychoanalytic Space
Frankenstein’s Genie-ology: The Magical Visionary Experience and the Associative Method
An Ethic of Free Association: Questioning a Uniform and Coercive Code of Ethics
Wang Fo and an Ethic of Free Association: Poetic Imagination, Mythical Stories, and Moral Philosophy
The Dramatic Meaning of Madness in Psycho(analy)sis: The Ear-Rationality of Treating Illusion as Reality
Escaping the Phantom’s Ghostly Grasp: On Psychoanalysis as a Performance Art in the Spirit World
A Fractured Fairy Tale: The Story of Our Professional Lives in the Kingdom of Positivism
Developing Competency in the Destruction of Psychoanalysis: An Other Approach
How Will Bodies of Knowledge(s) Speak the Psychoanalytic Practitioner of the 21st Century? On Madness, Shamans and the Psychoanalytic Arts

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Kavanaugh, Ph.D. is the founding president of the Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts, and is a former president of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education and the Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is a former director of clinical training at the University of Detroit-Mercy. Currently, he is in private practice in Farmington Hills, Michigan.