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A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become

The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients’ condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Clément contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers—the weary sons of Freud.

The analyst’s once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like.
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Release dateJun 9, 2015
ISBN9781781688878
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Catherine Clément

La filósofa y novelista francesa Catherine Clément (París, 1939) es autora de numerosos ensayos sobre antropología y psicoanálisis y ha escrito cerca de una docena de novelas. Su best-seller El viaje de Teo (Siruela, 1998) ha sido publicado en una docena de países y en España ha vendido hasta el momento más de 80.000 ejemplares.

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