Psychanalyse et culture

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Phelan employs an impressive range of cultural representations to examine how cultures perform their mourning. In relation to texts and events ranging from the paintings of Caravaggio to the Hill/Thomas hearing, she meditates on the trauma of loss.

"Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the twentieth century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics…