Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the author
Prefatory note
1. Introducing praxis: why ‘radical’ and why ‘beyond’?
	Prolegomenal notes
	On the radicality of psychoanalysis
	On the project of going beyond
	On scurrilous histories
	What ‘self’ expresses itself?
2. Free-associative praxis against interpretation
	Exploring differences
	Defining psychoanalysis
	Against conventional approaches to lived-experience
	Free-associative ‘attacks’ on certitude
	The force of desire against the stases of repetition-compulsivity
3. Notes on becoming a psychoanalyst
	Against (trade) schooling
	Entering psychoanalysis
	Psychoanalysis and the sense of transition
	On functioning as a psychoanalyst
	On the vulnerability and fear in becoming a psychoanalyst
4. Psychoanalytic discoveries: sexuality and deathfulness
	Ontoethics before and beyond epistemology
	Lived-experience and libidinal energies
	On ‘falling into’ free-associative speaking
	Free-associative awareness and our polysexual humanity
	Free-associative listening, awareness and deathfulness
5. The psychoanalytic leap and the necessity of revolution
	Critique of the discourse of domination
	From transformative imprisonment to transmutative release
	On the nonviolent power of transgressive praxis
Notes
Bibliography
Index