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  • Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games

    by Françoise Davoine ...
    Wittgenstein’s Folly: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Language Games presents a dialogue between the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author Françoise Davoine and Davoine’s patients with extreme lived experience.This book begins with Davoine’s seminar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, which is attended by Wittgenstein. He then accompanies Davoine on visits to ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Shandean Psychoanalysis

    Tristram Shandy, Madness and Trauma

    by Françoise Davoine ...
    Translated by Agnès Jacob ...
    This unique book examines the psychoanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne.Françoise Davoine explores the entire novel—each of her chapters corresponding to a volume of the novel—viewing it through a psychoanalytic lens: the monologue by Tristram’s embryo in ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • A Word to the Wise

    Don Quixote Returns to Fight Perversion

    by Françoise Davoine, Jean-Max Gaudillière ...
    After giving us a fascinating reading of Cervantes' classic novel in Don Quixote: Fighting Melancholia, Françoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière co-author a second work, to reflect on the hero's battle against perversion. To do so, they retrace his adventures in the Cervantes' second Don Quixote, written ten years after the first.The authors follow in his footsteps as he embarks on this other ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature

    Echoes from the Front Lines

    by Françoise Davoine ...
    This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.Part One presents a set of six ‘testimonies’, transcribed from video interviews conducted by Françoise Davoine with nurses, doctors and intensive care anaesthesiologists. These interviews are drawn on in Part Two, ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Mother Folly

    A Tale

    by Françoise Davoine ...
    Translated by Judith G. Miller ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Mother Folly

    A Tale

    by Françoise Davoine ...
    Translated by Judith G. Miller ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • History Beyond Trauma

    by Francoise Davoine, Jean-Max Gaudilliere ...
    Translated by Susan Fairfield ...
    In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of war, betrayal, dissociation, and disaster in the families ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Mother Folly

    A Tale — Enhanced Ebook Edition

    by Françoise Davoine ...
    Translated by Judith G. Miller ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Fighting Melancholia

    Don Quixote's Teaching

    by Francoise Davoine ...
    Translated by Agnes Jacob ...
    Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years, in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this book, she draws on her literary background to take the reader on a fascinating voyage with an unexpected but most helpful guide: Don Quixote. In her work, Davoine approaches madness not as a symptom, but rather as a place, the place where the symbolic ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Madness and the Social Link

    The Jean-Max Gaudillière Seminars 1985 – 2000

    by Jean Max Gaudillière ...
    This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985-2000 contains seven of the "Madness and the Social Link" seminars given by psychoanalyst Jean-Max Gaudillière at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris between ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • The Birth of a Political Self

    The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 2001-2014

    by Jean-Max Gaudillière ...
    This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.The second of two volumes, The Birth of a Political Self: The Jean-Max Gaudillière Seminars 2001-2014 contains seven of the "Madness and the Social Link" seminars given by psychoanalyst Jean-Max Gaudillière at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris between ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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    Essays

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    "One of our finest novelists has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind" as seen in this collection of essays (Oliver Sacks, New York Times– bestselling author of Awakenings ) .The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting ( Mysteries of t... ... Read more

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