Overview
According to Jacques Andre, ""the patient's encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is most intimate or personal to a complete stranger."" But the practice of psychoanalysis can only unfold if there is a strict respect for ethics. The words seduction and ethics, which at first sight seem mutually exclusive, are thus, as the author shows, at the heart of the analytic perspective. The author takes as her starting-point an encounter, which is not necessarily consensual, between Emmanuel Levinas' thought and his conception of philosophy as ethics - ethics understood as responsibility for the other - and that of the psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who posits the first adult other as a seducer of the young psyche from the outset, due to the transmission of enigmatic messages compromised by his or her unconscious. The analyst's ethical position is re-examined and with it the feminine/maternal origins of the human capacity for responsibility for the other.
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Author: Viviane Chetrit-Vatine
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.600kg
ISBN: 9780367102296
ISBN 10: 0367102293
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 July 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book talks to all analysts, regardless of their different theoretical backgrounds, as it goes deep to the quintessential origin of our profession: the importance of the adult caring environment conjugated with a philosophical vision of our ethical sense of responsibility towards the other. Reflecting on the seductive and the ethical dimensions of the analytic situation not only helps us to refine our conceptualisation of psychoanalytic work, but also proves amazingly useful in our actual work whenever we have to scrutinise the adequacy of the elasticity of the setting. I believe this book really fills a gap in our psychoanalytic culture. --Antonino Ferro, President The purpose of this book is to confront the demanding issue of the ethics of psychoanalysis from the original perspective of trying to discover the ethical consistency of the actual foundations of the discipline. The hypothesis that the ethical stance of Levinas, identified with the responsibilisation for the other, has maternal origins and must be re-thought following Laplanche's theory of primary seduction, clearly distinguishes the ethics of psychoanalysis from a mere - though always exacting - professional deontology. We are grateful to Viviane Chetrit-Vatine for trying to construct a new psychoanalytic statute for ethics and a new ethical orientation for psychoanalysis. --Jorge Canestri, Chair In this most interesting book, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine aims to construct an ethics for psychoanalysis. She suggests that there is a double asymmetry of the analytical situation, while she stresses both its ethical and seductive dimensions. In particular, she argues that the psychoanalytic encounter takes place in a time/space that is characterised by the analyst's ethical position defined, after Levinas, as responsibility for the other. Drawing on contemporary schools of psychoanalysis, especially in France, this book is gripping and highly relevant to current discussions on the ethics of psychoanalysis. --Rosine Jozef Perelberg, Training Analyst
""In this most interesting book, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine aims to construct an ethics for psychoanalysis. She suggests that there is a double asymmetry of the analytical situation, while she stresses both its ethical and seductive dimensions. In particular, she argues that the psychoanalytic encounter takes place in a time/space that is characterised by the analyst's ethical position defined, after Levinas, as responsibility for the other. Drawing on contemporary schools of psychoanalysis, especially in France, this book is gripping and highly relevant to current discussions on the ethics of psychoanalysis.""--Rosine Jozef Perelberg, Training Analyst ""The purpose of this book is to confront the demanding issue of the ethics of psychoanalysis from the original perspective of trying to discover the ethical consistency of the actual foundations of the discipline. The hypothesis that the ethical stance of Levinas, identified with the ""responsibilisation"" for the other, has maternal origins and must be re-thought following Laplanche's theory of primary seduction, clearly distinguishes the ethics of psychoanalysis from a mere - though always exacting - professional deontology. We are grateful to Viviane Chetrit-Vatine for trying to construct a new psychoanalytic statute for ethics and a new ethical orientation for psychoanalysis.""--Jorge Canestri, Chair ""This book talks to all analysts, regardless of their different theoretical backgrounds, as it goes deep to the quintessential origin of our profession: the importance of the adult caring environment conjugated with a philosophical vision of our ethical sense of responsibility towards the other. Reflecting on the seductive and the ethical dimensions of the analytic situation not only helps us to refine our conceptualisation of psychoanalytic work, but also proves amazingly useful in our actual work whenever we have to scrutinise the adequacy of the elasticity of the setting. I believe this book really fills a gap in our psychoanalytic culture.""--Antonino Ferro, President
This book talks to all analysts, regardless of their different theoretical backgrounds, as it goes deep to the quintessential origin of our profession: the importance of the adult caring environment conjugated with a philosophical vision of our ethical sense of responsibility towards the other. Reflecting on the seductive and the ethical dimensions of the analytic situation not only helps us to refine our conceptualisation of psychoanalytic work, but also proves amazingly useful in our actual work whenever we have to scrutinise the adequacy of the elasticity of the setting. I believe this book really fills a gap in our psychoanalytic culture. --Antonino Ferro, President In this most interesting book, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine aims to construct an ethics for psychoanalysis. She suggests that there is a double asymmetry of the analytical situation, while she stresses both its ethical and seductive dimensions. In particular, she argues that the psychoanalytic encounter takes place in a time/space that is characterised by the analyst's ethical position defined, after Levinas, as responsibility for the other. Drawing on contemporary schools of psychoanalysis, especially in France, this book is gripping and highly relevant to current discussions on the ethics of psychoanalysis. --Rosine Jozef Perelberg, Training Analyst The purpose of this book is to confront the demanding issue of the ethics of psychoanalysis from the original perspective of trying to discover the ethical consistency of the actual foundations of the discipline. The hypothesis that the ethical stance of Levinas, identified with the responsibilisation for the other, has maternal origins and must be re-thought following Laplanche's theory of primary seduction, clearly distinguishes the ethics of psychoanalysis from a mere - though always exacting - professional deontology. We are grateful to Viviane Chetrit-Vatine for trying to construct a new psychoanalytic statute for ethics and a new ethical orientation for psychoanalysis. --Jorge Canestri, Chair
