Death and Love: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

Editor : Julie Reshe, Editor : Todd McGowan

Death and Love: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 188
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98054
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032663425
  • ISBN 10 : 1032663421

Table of Contents


Introduction

Section I - Lacanian Reflections: Love in Literature, Film, and Media
1. Between Nowhere and Goodbye: Love Clichés (and beyond) in Literature & Film
Gautam Basu Thakur

2. Til Death Do Us Part: Lacking in Love or Loving Lack
Stephanie Swales

3. (Courtly) Love and Death (Drive)
Russell Sbriglia

4. An Ethics of Shame: Love, Media Pleasures, and Monsters
Jennifer Friedlander

Section II - Through Death to Love: Psychoanalytic, Philosophical, and Theological Insights
5. On the Subject of Love
Richard Boothby

6. Love & Death under Erasure: Lessons from the Phoenix (and Diotima)
Michael Marder

7. From Death to Love: The Transformative Event in Paul’s Christian Discourse
Leon S. Brenner

8. Embracing Suffering Beyond the Death Drive in Catherine of Siena's Writings
Mark Gerard Murphy

9. Death Driven by Love
Peter Prosen

Section III - Beyond the Finite: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis in Interplay
10. Existentialism After Finitude: The Transcendence of the Unconscious
Todd McGowan

11. Why Is the Death Drive Not Identical with Being-Toward-Death?
Simone A. Medina Polo

Section IV - Disintegrating Power of Love: Spielrein, Weil, and Kristeva
12. Simone Weil on Death: Exploring Intersections with Freud and Spielrein's Death Drive
Wanyoung Kim-Murphy

13. In Search for Adult Sexual Tenderness in Freud, Kristeva and Bersani
Stephanie Koziej

14. The Spielrenian Death Drive and the Negative Affect Regulation Processes
Arvin Bains

15. Spielrein's Negative Psychoanalysis: Mother Death Calling
Julie Reshe

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