American Imago articles from June 1993

American Imago archives from June 1993

The Cultural Origins and Prospects of Psychoanalysis: "Jewish Science" and/or "Jouissance."
June 22, 1993... Though my interest in this subject arises somewhat obliquely to present work-in-progress, it has nevertheless become a matter of central concern to me. Perhaps it will help if I begin by filling in some preliminary contextual blanks as...

The "real" since Freud: Castoriadis and Lacan on socialization and language. (Cornelius Castoriadis; Jacques Lacan)
June 22, 1993... In spite of their fundamental differences, the alternative readings of Freud offered by Castoriadis (1987) and Lacan(1) are similarly motivated by the desire to restore Freud's radical view of the unconscious as a distinct and irreducible...

Psychopathology, metaphysics.
June 22, 1993... In his essay "Differance" (1982), Derrida lists Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger as having made the most powerful contributions to the general effort of understanding how metaphysics "programs" all thought. This effort, sometimes called...

The rhetoric of improvisation: spontaneous discourse in jazz and psychoanalysis..
June 22, 1993... It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes too close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in - at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or...