Maurice Blanchot and Psychoanalysis.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: against Interiority -- 1 The Possibility of a Conversation -- 2 Politics of Refusal -- 3 The Streets -- 4 Communism without Communism -- 5 A Silent and Perpetual Hoax -- 6Overview -- part 1 -- Chapter 1 Freud, Lacan, and the Neuter -- 1 Thirteen Years -- 2 Va-et-vient -- 3 Dialectics for Magic -- 4 The Movement of Another Speech -- 5 Freud and the Neutral Turn -- 6 The Road to Rome -- 7 The Threat of Medical Formalization -- 8 Speaking, Again -- 9 A Perilous Endeavor -- 10 Desire Recognized -- 11 A Dialectic That Challenges Dialectic? -- 12 A Psychoanalysis without Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 2 On Madness -- 1 Hiding Is Forbidden -- 2 The Clinical Context -- 3 Madness-Lack or Surplus? -- 4 Jaspers and the Unverständlich -- 5 Compulsory Ruination -- 6 Against Blanchot -- 7 Beyond the Critical and the Clinical? -- 8 A Murmuring Emptiness -- 9 Internalizing the Outside -- 10 "A Word Perpetually at Odds with Itself" -- 11 The Prolepsis of Return -- 12 Every Name in History -- 13 Writing the Rupture -- part 2 -- Chapter 3 Anti-Narcissus -- 1 The Provocation -- 2 Every Poet Is Narcissus -- 3 Anti-Narcissus: or, What Ovid Forgot -- 4 Primary Narcissism and the Recuperation of Otherness -- 5 A Return to the Zero-Point -- 6 Narcissism, Nationalism -- 7 Turning toward Disaster -- Chapter 4 Primal Scenes -- 1 The Window of Mértola -- 2 Frames inside Frames -- 3 A Source of the Nile -- 4 "The Most Delicate Question" -- 5 Indefinite Anteriority -- 6 "I Died … There Had Been Rehearsals" -- 7 A Child Is Being Killed -- 8 Death Drives? -- 9 Return to the Window -- Chapter 5 The Trauma of Responsibility -- 1 Rethinking Responsibility -- 2 The Alien inside My Body -- 3 Subissement -- 4 The Invasive Other -- 5 Le Moi sans Moi -- 6 The Crypt.

7 Nachträglichkeit: a Short History of a Translation -- 8 Blanchot and the Après-coup -- 9 Mothering and the Asymmetries of Responsibility -- Chapter 6 Maternal Rhythms -- 1 Blanchot's Mother -- 2 Negative Hallucination -- 3 The Real, the Outside -- 4 Chora and Rhythm -- 5 The Danger of Rhythm's Enigma -- 6 Double Dissymmetry -- 7 Conclusion: the Impossibility of Narcissism? -- Works Cited -- Index.

This work explores the status of psychoanalysis in Blanchot's texts, from the early 1950s onward, elucidating the political and philosophical dimensions of Blanchot's writings on madness, narcissism, and trauma.

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