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>The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation
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Year:
2019
Catalog number :
45-005885
ISBN:
978-965-7763-49-0
Pages:
248
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The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation

The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other

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The words seduction and ethics, which at first sight seem mutually exclusive, are at the heart of the analytic perspective. Vivian  Chetrit-Vatine takes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas's thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset, due to the transmission of enigmatic messages compromised by his or her unconscious. The analyst's ethical position is re-examined and with it the feminine/maternal origins of the human capacity for responsibility for the other.