Resultaten voor 'philippe van haute'

1. Herman Westerink
2. Philippe Van Haute

Seduction, Drive and Repetition

This book makes the compelling argument that the key to understanding Freud’s clinical writings and psychoanalytical theories lies in his trauma theory. The authors argue that Freud never truly abandoned his initial trauma theory – the seduction theory – in favour of the Oedipus complex and the primacy of fantasy. Instead, Freud progressively enriched his understanding of trauma, expanding his theory to include references to the evolution of human beings and organic life. Trauma runs as a red thread throughout Freud’s oeuvre. It occupies a central position in both his clinical case studies and his meta-psychological speculations. Freud ultimately develops a metaphysics of trauma and a tragic view of human existence – a worldview that continues to resonate within contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking

Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle stands as a foundational text in psychoanalysis, delving into profound questions about life, death, pleasure and pain. Through a combination of contextualising and philosophical contributions, this critical edition and commentary sheds new light on Freud’s text. In a series of contributions spanning approaches from historical exegesis to philosophical reflections on key concepts and ideas presented in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the evolution and inconsistencies found in the various versions of the text are highlighted. Particular emphasis is placed on the conceptualisation of trauma and drive theory. These commentaries also provide context for the work, examining its position within the Freudian corpus, its role in the collaborative project with Sándor Ferenczi in speculative bioanalysis, and its clinical insights into war neuroses, trauma, bonding and aggression in post-World War I society. By critically examining diverse interpretations of Freud’s work, Towards the Limits of Freudian Thinking re-actualises this classic text in contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis, rendering it accessible to both specialised and broader audiences. Herman Westerink is endowed and associate professor at the Center for Contemporary Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen. Jenny Willner is assistant professor at the Department for Comparative Literature, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Philippe Van Haute (†) was professor of philosophical anthropology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, a practising psychoanalyst at the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis and extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria. This book is a major intellectual event. It sheds new light on the genesis and the interpretation of one of the most difficult and most studied — but least well understood — cornerstones of psychoanalytic theory. The specific focus on the role played by theories of biology raises provocative questions about the very definition of life and death and resonates with current discussions about biology and psychic life. - Elissa Marder, Emory University

1. Herman Westerink
2. Philippe van Haute

Verleiding, drift en herhaling

In zijn vroegste teksten verdedigt Sigmund Freud de ‘theorie van de verleiding’, die inhoudt dat de oorsprong van een neurose te vinden is in seksuele trauma’s uit de kinderjaren. Vaak wordt beweerd dat Freud de realiteit van dergelijke trauma’s later zou hebben verworpen, om deze te vervangen door oedipale fantasieën. In Verleiding, drift en herhaling presenteren Herman Westerink en Philippe Van Haute een radicaal nieuwe lezing van Freud. Door de ontwikkelingsgang van zijn denken nauwgezet te volgen, laten zij zien dat de realiteit van het seksuele trauma heel het oeuvre van Freud is blijven bepalen. De exploratie van deze problematiek in enkele van zijn centrale teksten brengt bovendien aan het licht dat de rol van het trauma de louter klinische problematiek ver overschrijdt. Freud ontwikkelt een metafysica van het trauma die een tragische mensvisie impliceert. ‘Door de heldere uiteenzettingen is deze filosofische studie goed leesbaar als een inleiding in het werk van Freud. Tegelijkertijd verschaft ze nieuwe inzichten in de grondlegger van de psychoanalyse, waardoor het een belangrijke bijdrage is aan het hedendaagse Freud-onderzoek.’ – Ruud Welten Herman Westerink (1968) is universitair hoofddocent godsdienstfilosofie aan de Radboud Universiteit. Philippe Van Haute (1957) is hoogleraar wijsgerige antropologie aan de Radboud Universiteit en bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Pretoria. Ze doen onderzoek naar de wijsgerige betekenis van de psychoanalyse in het werk van Freud en zijn leerlingen. Samen publiceerden ze eerder onder meer Reading Freud’s ‘Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality’: From Pleasure to the Object (2020).

1. Ulrike Kistner
2. Philippe Van Haute
3. Robert Bernasconi

Violence, Slavery and Freedom Between Hegel and Fanon

Offers close readings of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and of responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that highlight the entangled history of the translations, transpositions and transformations of Hegel in the work of Frantz Fanon, and more generally in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts.

1. Sigmund Freud

Hysterie-Analyse Hg.Finzi et al.

1. Philippe Van Haute
2. Herman Westerink

Reading Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Sigmund Freud’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an ‘unknown’ text. In this book Freud’s 1905 theory of sexuality is reconstructed in its historical context, its systematic outline and its actual relevance.