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Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire

Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire

Schechter, Kate

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Series: Experimental Futures

AnthropologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0822357216
ISBN13: 9780822357216
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 20 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis, Illusions of a Future explores the political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized medicine. Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, Kate Schechter examines the nexus of theory, practice, and institutional form in the original instituting of psychoanalysis, its normalization, and now its crisis. She describes how contemporary analysts struggle to maintain conceptions of themselves as capable of deciding what psychoanalysis is and how to regulate it in order to prevail over market demands for the efficiency and standardization of mental health treatments.

In the process, Schechter shows how deeply imbricated the analyst-patient relationship is in this effort. Since the mid-twentieth century, the real relationship between analyst and patient is no longer the unremarked background of analysis but its very site. Psychoanalysts seek to validate the centrality of this relationship with theory and, through codified standards, to claim it as a privileged technique. It has become the means by which psychoanalysts, in seeking to protect their disciplinary autonomy, have unwittingly bound themselves to a neoliberal discourse of regulation.

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