Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture
Bridges Lacanian clinical concepts and cultural analysis.
Jazani's analysis of psychoanalytic cases will be of great help to anyone who wants to understand the premises of the neo-liberal ideology of success and the symptoms people form in the context of its pressures for perfection.
Berjanet Jazani sets out Lacanian concepts by working through case material, cinema, and questions raised by artificial intelligence, showing how each idea operates both in the consulting room and in the wider culture. The chapters move across dreams, the mirror phase, psychosis, hysteria, the drive, the symptom, supervision, and the position of the analyst, pairing each with clinical vignettes drawn from her own practice.
Throughout, Jazani reads these formations against a technologically oriented, market-based society, tracing how its pressures shape the symptoms patients bring. A closing section turns to contemporary social life and radicalization, extending the clinical vocabulary toward collective phenomena.
For a practising clinician, the book offers a compact demonstration of Lacanian theory in use rather than in the abstract: how supervision is handled, how the analyst's position is held, and how a case can be heard in cultural as well as individual terms. It was published by Routledge in 2021.
About the author
Berjanet Jazani
Berjanet Jazani is a London-based medical doctor and practising psychoanalyst working in the Lacanian tradition. She is a clinical member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) and has served as an officer of the College of Psychoanalysts (UK). She is known for her books published by Routledge, including How Does Analysis Work? Examples of Lacanian Interpretation and Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture, which draw on Lacanian theory for both clinical work and cultural analysis.
Details
- 2021
- Routledge
- Routledge
- 130
- 9780367330927