Anxiety, Desire, and the Object a: Lacan on Lucia Tower's "Countertransference".
J Am Psychoanal Assoc
; 71(5): 967-981, 2023 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-38140971
ABSTRACT
Lacan's seminars are a treasure trove of innovative psychoanalytic explorations. In Seminar X, Anxiety, he takes up this Freudian theme and explores a number of interrelated ideas castration, the difference between the sexes, two different forms of acting out, and what he terms his only original theoretical contribution the object a and its "various incidences." The object a is described here in detail, especially in relation to Lacan's argument that analysts who are women have a freer relationship to their desire and the countertransferences it spawns than do men. Lacan discussed Lucia Tower's classic paper, "Countertransference," in light of these notions. This essay is a close reading of Lacan's close reading of Tower, whose account, he says, must be approached in all its "innocence and freshness."
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Psychoanalytic Theory
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Countertransference
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
J Am Psychoanal Assoc
Year:
2023
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
United States