SVETLANA UVAROVA
LOVE AND DEATH IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Executive editor: Tatyana Romashova
Translated by Natalia Supolkina
Copy editor: Gianmaria Senia
Making up and cover design: Vladimir Uvarov
Uvarova Svetlana
Love and Death in Psychoanalysis. – Kiev: PHEE “IIDP”, 2017. – 210 p.
ISBN 978-966-97479-4-5
This monograph is based on materials from papers and reports written by the author of this book in different years. The author sums up the comprehension of psychoanalytic theory and clinical experience. It also contains reflections on cardinal changes related to love, sexuality and death in the context of a remarkably changed habitat a person in the twenty-first century live in. The book is aimed at psychoanalysts, philosophers, psychotherapists, psychologists, students of humanities and a wide readership interested in psychoanalysis. All rights reserved.
List of Contents
Preface by Sergio Benvenuto
Instead of an Introduction
Chapter 1. The Reflections of Love and Death Love and Psychoanalysis
The Subject in Psychoanalysis
Love, Sexuality, Libido, Eros, Desire
Love and Hatred
Love and Transference
Death in Psychoanalysis
The Symbols of Death
The Traces of Love and Death
The Modern Subject’s Relationship with Death
Chapter 2. The Fate and Fortunes of the Theories
A Re-examination of Freud’s Theory of Love
A Re-examination of the Practice of Love
Revisions of the Theory and Practice of Psycho – analysis by Freud’s Followers
Repression and Sublimation. Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
Chapter 3. Love, Death and Sexuality
Sexuality and the Psychic Universe
Love and Death Reflections in the Mirror of Sadomasochism
The Drive and the Object
Chapter 4. Once Again about Love
Love Paradoxes
Once Again about Love: from Freud to Lacan
Once Again about Love: from the Subject of the 20th Century to the subject of the 21st Century
Chapter 5. The Hidden Side of the Moon. Beyond the Feminine
The Masculine and the Feminine
The Female Question
Psychoanalysts in Search of a Key to the Mystery of Female Sexuality
The Female in Lacanian Terms
The Masculine and the Feminine within a Mythological and Poetic Retrospective
The Woman of Post-Modernity: a Mythological Perspective
Chapter 6. The 21st Century: the Transformation of Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Appro aches. The Destiny of the Snow Maiden
Anorexia is a Symptom of the 21st Century
The Case of the Snow Maiden
The Destiny of the Snow Maiden from the 19th Century to the 21st Century
What Can Psychoanalysis Do so that the Snow Maiden will not Melt?
Chapter 7. Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Happi ness
The Formulas for Happiness
The Politics of Happiness Production
The Social and Cultural Conditions for Happiness
Chapter 8. Trauma and Conflict – the Imprint of Love and Death
The Trauma within the Relationship of Love and Death
The Conflict and Dialectics of Eros
The Development of the Theories of Trauma and Conflict by Freud’s Followers
The Theories of Conflict and Trauma as Applied to Psychoanalytic Practice
Love and Death in the Dream “about Lilac”
Chapter 9. As a Conclusion
About the author of the preface
About author of the book