ABSTRACT

This book looks beyond both theory and practice to the politics and cultural resonances of psychoanalysis–in the torments and anxiety of artistic endeavour, and in the urgent and wearying sense of the blindness of our troubled history and politics, in Israel and in South America.

part One|69 pages

Sexuality

chapter One|21 pages

Hysteria

chapter Two|25 pages

Fetishism

chapter Three|19 pages

Obscure objects of desire

part Two|49 pages

Creativity

chapter Four|14 pages

Dreams, acting out, and symbolic impoverishment

chapter Five|20 pages

From the analysis of an artist

part Three|26 pages

History

chapter Seven|24 pages

The Aztecs, Masada, and the compulsion to repeat

part Four|27 pages

Knowledge

chapter Eight|25 pages

Knowledge and its vicissitudes