This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to address contemporary experiences of anguish, desire, suffering and alienation.
Examining the uncanny in Freud and Lacan, the book explores its emergence through psychoanalysis and aesthetics, as well as its meta-psychological implications. Chapters in this book explore the history and connection between the uncanny and monstrosity in both philosophy and psychoanalysis, following on from the construction of Freud's 'The Uncanny' in 1919, and focusing on these concepts through different perspectives, such as Marxism.
Offering new insights and arguments on these fascinating concepts, this book will be of interest to philosophers, psychoanalysts and psychologists, as well as appealing to professionals and students in the worlds of arts, film and history.
This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to address contemporary experiences of anguish, desire, suffering and alienation.
Introduction
1. On philosophy and psychoanalysis: An (uncanny)
vompossibility
2. Monstrosity in dispute: Monsters in history and its
implications to thinking
3. The uncanniness of monstrosity (or is it the
other way around?): The contours towards another grammar between philosophy
and psychoanalysis
4. Monstrosity and impasses of Fetishism: A Marxist
approach (or, a debate towards "monstrous materialism")
5. A monstrous
grammar for psychoanalysis Conclusion
Rodrigo Gonsalves is a practicing psychoanalyst, with a PhD in Philosophy, Critical Theory and the Arts at European Graduate School and is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of São Paulo. He authored numerous chapters and articles about Lacanian psychoanalysis and new directions in Marxist theory. He is currently a researcher for Latesfip (Interdepartmental Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis/USP), member of GPOL/PSOPOL (USP), member of the editorial committee of the journal CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory and an editor-member of Lavra Palavra, an independent publishing house from Brazil.
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