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Schechter, Kathryn A.

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Illusions of a future: Psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Illusions of a future: Psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire./
Author:	Schechter, Kathryn A.
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3697.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3419694
ISBN:	9781124198071

Illusions of a future: Psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire.
Schechter, Kathryn A.

Illusions of a future: Psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire. - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3697.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2010.

In this dissertation I describe the cultural and social processes through which psychoanalysis is being transformed under neoliberal medicine in the United States. By combining an ethnographic, historical, and theoretical account of psychoanalysis' undecidability qua cultural practice I seek to illuminate the particular deepening under neoliberalism of a fundamental structural condition of double bind that plagues the psychoanalytic institution, and then to demonstrate the inexorable "governmentalization" of psychoanalytic practice over the course of the transition from liberal to neoliberal reason in late 20th century medicine. This governmentalization installed at the very heart of the clinical encounter a set of logics and practices of accountability that has steadily subsumed the desiring professional subject within biopolitical logics of population, insurance, risk, and calculability, and yet, in a simultaneous and seemingly paradoxical emergence within this field of managed and administered behavioral health the intensely personal intimacy of the patient-analyst pair has taken center stage in psychoanalysis over the past twenty years. In looking at how U.S. psychoanalysts demarcate "psychoanalysis" from "psychotherapy" and "transference" from "the real relationship," I draw special attention to their polemical evaluations of one another's positions on "what works" in psychoanalysis and their endorsement of a set of more and more personal, less and less alienable qualities of expertise -- qualities of work on the self intertwined with work on the other -- that are embedded in the notion of the real relationship. In this way I expose the work that the common accusation "that's not analysis" has done historically within a community of psychoanalytic practice in order to specify the means by which this community has been exquisitely vulnerable to a kind of constant, combative, autoimmune paregicide. Its members seek to neutralize their conflicts by reframing sexuality, the negative, the death drive, and the figure of the father, replacing these distinguishing features with a relational, maternal, developmental formula and an imaginary of objective need and its real satisfaction rather than wishful fantasy and its interpretative resolution. By recoding all of psychopathology as "pre-Oedipal," by siting its traumatic derivation in the earliest years of life, "analysis" becomes a maternal labor of making up life from below, akin to what Hardt calls a "biopower from below," rather than a paternal labor of interpreting already-made-life from above. As a set of indirect techniques for controlling others' conduct, work on the real relationship grounds its authority through such a "developmental" claim to objectivity. As a form of sociality directly exploitable by capital and an emerging form of governmentality geared to controlling a market by bundling enrollment and problematization, the real relationship is installed, in a reflex to conserve work, as the privileged means of creating the social bond itself.

ISBN: 9781124198071Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Illusions of a future: Psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire.
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