Acknowledgements Preface 1. Wanted: The Father Dead or Alive 2. The Anti-Oedipeans 3. Becoming Versus Being 4. Even your Dreams are Police Records 5. Zizek: Silence and the Real Desert 6. The Power of Negative Thinking: Analysis against Therapy 7. Translation and Interpretation 8. New Subjectives in the Virtual World: Implications for Practice 9. From the Greatest Good to the Dunce’s Cap and Revolutionary Subjectivity 10. Materialism or Magisterium Afterword References Index
Rob Weatherill is a practicing and supervisory psychoanalyst in private practice in Dublin. He has been a lecturer on psychoanalysis and taught psychoanalytic theory and practice in University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology. He has written several books, and over thirty papers and articles in journals and other media, in Ireland and abroad.
"Oedipus is dead and we have killed him. From Freud’s dreamwork to
Krautrock and Kraftwerk, Rob Weatherill unfolds the consequences of
our post 60s anti-Oedipal impulses, our excess of hate over love
and our very indifference to that state. With fearless intellect it
poses the question: is it possible to live and thrive outside the
Oedipal frame altogether? This is a passionate apologetic for
psychoanalysis over therapy, a sophisticated cultural and critical
history of the Left, a damning indictment of the market driven
imperative to enjoy at any expense, and a curiously theological
work. Brimming with insight, wit and a depth of learning, our
masters may be dead, but Weatherill shows himself to be every bit
the master in a world without a compass."-Dr Marcus Pound, Senior
Lecturer in Catholic Studies, Dept. Theology & Religion, Durham
University."This is an impassioned and compelling work which reads
key psychoanalytic and philosophical texts to offer an
against-the-grain analysis of contemporary culture – of value to
scholars, clinicians and sophisticated students interested in the
continuing legacies of Jaques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix
Guattari among others."-Dr Julie Walsh, University of Warwick,
author of Narcissism and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2015).
"Oedipus is dead and we have killed him. From Freud’s dreamwork to
Krautrock and Kraftwerk, Rob Weatherill unfolds the consequences of
our post 60s anti-Oedipal impulses, our excess of hate over love
and our very indifference to that state. With fearless intellect it
poses the question: is it possible to live and thrive outside the
Oedipal frame altogether? This is a passionate apologetic for
psychoanalysis over therapy, a sophisticated cultural and critical
history of the Left, a damning indictment of the market driven
imperative to enjoy at any expense, and a curiously theological
work. Brimming with insight, wit and a depth of learning, our
masters may be dead, but Weatherill shows himself to be every bit
the master in a world without a compass."-Dr Marcus Pound, Senior
Lecturer in Catholic Studies, Dept. Theology & Religion, Durham
University."This is an impassioned and compelling work which reads
key psychoanalytic and philosophical texts to offer an
against-the-grain analysis of contemporary culture – of value to
scholars, clinicians and sophisticated students interested in the
continuing legacies of Jaques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix
Guattari among others."-Dr Julie Walsh, University of Warwick,
author of Narcissism and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2015)."The
Anti-Oedipus Complex, his extraordinary new work, diagnoses a
western culture blighted with anomie and desolation, and asks if
anything can halt "the final seemingly unstoppable victory of the
inhuman." -Rob Doyle, The Irish Times
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