Élisabeth Roudinesco

Roudinesco makes some excellent arguments for the role of psychoanalysis in upholding the human subject as agentic and not a machine, a byproduct of thinking from "the depressive society" in which modern life is currently situated.

Na primeira parte, Sociedade Depressiva, Roudinesco infere sobre a patologização do social, de como a ciência atual dá respaldo à uma psiquiatria exclusivamente biologizante através da psicofarmacologia e ao discurso do DSM atráves dos tempos.
Na segunda parte, A grande querela do inconsciente, a autora faz um apanhado geral sobre o backlash que a psicanálise sofreu por um suposto cientificismo, especialmente vindo dos cognitivistas.
Na terceira e última parte, O futuro da show more psicanálise, Roudinesco explora a quantas anda a psicanálise nos anos 90, trata especialmente do cientifismo americano somado às lutas identitárias e a zona histórica que são as intituições psicanálitcas na França.
No geral, é um bom livro, mas creio que a Roudinesco é uma espécie de Poliana da psicanálise, tudo é lindo e maravilhoso quando se trata disso, autocrítica pra quê, não é mesmo? show less

A revolution cannot be programmed. In a certain way, as the only event worthy of the name., it exceeds every possible horizon, every horizon of the possible--and therefore of potency and power.

This sumptuous collection of dialogues (as opposed to interviews as the introduction notes the
participants overlap "without fusing") is from 2001 and hovers above a number of topics: the Western Philosophical Heritage, Revolution after the fall of the USSR, Same-Sex Marriage, Adoption and the show more Freudian implications thereof, Animal Rights, Anti-Semitism, the Death Penalty and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis. Thus a late period Derrida speaks with historian (and avowed Lacanian) Elisabeth Roudinesco about the themes which contoured much of their intellectual careers. No need to peer within for snark or sharp disagreements, as good manners triumphed and Derrida was especially eloquent praising Mandela and speaking of the need to mitigate cruelty to animals. This is an accessible entry to later Derrida. It also provides some insights into Derrida's childhood and his defensiveness in certain situations. Such a master and always paradoxical -- Derrida so valued his privacy, while often gushing in interviews. show less

An fascinating ‘interview’… more of a ‘conversation,’ really, between Derrida and the psychoanalysis historian Elizabeth Roudinesco (who wrote a biography of Jacques Lacan), discussing many contemporary topics. Overall, more engaging than most of the interviews compiled in Points…