Name: Psychoanalysis and Repetition: Why do we Keep Making the Same Mistakes?
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Author: Juan David Nasio
ISBN: 9781438475103

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Psychoanalysis and Repetition: Why do we Keep Making the Same Mistakes?

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan David Nasio

Translated by

David Pettigrew

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6x15.2x0.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781438475103

Synopsis "Psychoanalysis and Repetition: Why do we Keep Making the Same Mistakes?"

In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysts in France, argues that unconscious repetition represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as no less than the fundamental constitution of the human being. Through repetition, the unconscious memory of the past erupts, without our knowledge, in our choices and actions, to such an extent that, for Nasio, we are our past in action. While Nasio explains that repetition is both healthy and pathological, the book is primarily concerned with the repetition of unconscious trauma, as trauma engenders trauma, through unconscious fantasms that are expressed, in turn, as symptoms. Through vivid clinical examples, as well as trenchant theoretical explications involving repetition, Nasio illuminates a range of fundamental concepts in Freud and Lacan and offers a rethinking of the psychoanalytic tradition in the context of this theme. Nasio's approach is richly interdisciplinary, incorporating passages from philosophers Descartes and Spinoza, for example, and from such literary figures as Pindar, Proust, and Verlaine. The interdisciplinary fabric of Nasio's discourse conveys the crucial importance of the concept of repetition in psychoanalysis and in the human condition.

Juan David Nasio

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Juan David Nasio, born in 1942 in Rosario, Argentina, is a distinguished psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and writer. He studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires and specialized in psychiatry at the Evita Hospital in Lanús. In 1969, he moved to France to delve deeper into the study of psychoanalysis under the influence of Jacques Lacan. For three years, he taught a seminar at the École Freudienne de Paris (1977-1980) and, after its dissolution, founded the Paris Psychoanalytic Seminars in 1986. Additionally, he was a professor at the University of Paris VII for 30 years.

In recognition of his intellectual work and his contributions to psychoanalysis and psychiatry, Nasio was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1999.

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