A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity: The Metapsychology of Willy Apollon(SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)

Provides the foundations for a new form of psychoanalysis appropriate to the subject of the twenty-first century. A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity presents and elaborates upon the mature thought of the Haitian-Quebecois analyst Willy Apollon. Apollon's work amounts to a thorough revision of the fundamental concepts of Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis in view of the situation of the human subject today, in an age of global cultural conflict and interpenetration that he calls "mondialisation." This landmark volume brings together a new foundational text by Apollon, seven original essays, including by Apollon's longtime collaborators Danielle Bergeron and volume coeditor Lucie Cantin, and an interview with Apollon. Synthesizing clinical, cultural-historical, and aesthetic perspectives, contributors offer rich redefinitions of the unconscious, the imaginary-symbolic-real triad, masculine and feminine, puberty and adolescence, address and transference, the symptom, the fantasy, and more. As distinct cultures and civilizations crumble, the world as a whole and the human emerge in a new way. A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity meets this moment, positioning spirit as a crucial term for a human creativity that exceeds any given culture.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Willy Apollon's Revision of the Metapsychology: Departures from Freud and Lacan Jeffrey S. Librett Opening 1. The Human in Question Willy Apollon The Aesthetic and the Out-of-Language 2. Language, Hors langage, Act, Aesthetics Tracy McNulty 3. Aesthetics, Spirit, Time, and the Quest Fernanda Negrete Rethinking Femininity and Masculinity 4. The Cultural Montage of the Sexual Alexander Miller 5. Woman, Man, Femininity, Masculinity Daniel Wilson Clinical Concepts and Their Application 6. From Address to Transference Jeffrey S. Librett 7. The Insistence of the Untreatable in the Social Link: The Symptom Danielle Bergeron 8. The Fantasy: Its Function, Modalities, Traversal, and Clinic Lucie Cantin 9. On the Metapsychology: Interview with Willy Apollon Danielle Bergeron, Lucie Cantin, Jeffrey S. Librett, Alexander Miller, Tracy McNulty, Fernanda Negrete, Daniel Wilson Appendix List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Lucie Cantin is a clinical Professor of Psychology at Laval University and a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Gifric and the Freudian School of Quebec. She is coauthor, with Willy Apollon and Danielle Bergeron, of Le traitement psychanalytique de la psychose: Sa clinique, ses résultats. Jeffrey S. Librett is Professor of German at the University of Oregon and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond. Tracy McNulty is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life.

Review :
"Combining new work by Willy Apollon with exegeses by numerous luminaries, A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity is sure to be well-received by psychoanalytic theorists and clinicians, as well as scholars interested in aesthetics, linguistics, and the youth mental health epidemic. It is a hefty work, collating smart writers, and will profitably advance the intellectual and social metabolism of post-Lacanian psychoanalysis." — Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy; or, The Cultural Style of Too-Late Capitalism