Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. But trying to love without…
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Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence, with our hatred, is often a recipe for failure. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on.
Owens and Swales trace the concept of ambivalence through its various iterations in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis in order to question how the contemporary subject deals with its ambivalence. Any attempt, therefore, to love our neighbour as ourselves - or even, for that matter, to love ourselves - must recognise that we love where we hate and we hate where we love.Psychoanalysis, beginning with Freud, has claimed that to be in two minds about something or someone is characteristic of human subjectivity. They argue that experiences of ambivalence