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. 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. 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.

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.

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

Violence, Slavery and Freedom Between Hegel and Fanon

Ulrike Kistner (Author, Editor) Ulrike Kistner is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Philippe Van Haute (Author, Editor) Philippe Van Haute is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Robert Bernasconi (Author) Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Ato Sekyi-Otu (Author) Ato Sekyi-Otu is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Social Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto. He is Associate Fellow of Thinking Africa, Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University. Josias Tembo (Author) Josias Tembo is PhD researcher at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and a research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. Beata Stawarska (Author) Beata Stawarska is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Reingard Nethersole (Author) Reingard Nethersole is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg where she inaugurated Comparative Literature.