It will be of great value to students and scholars of psychology and of the humanities generally, and to analysts of all persuasions. This first-ever commentary on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference, provides readers with a clear and systematic introduction to Lacan’s views on love. Bruce Fink is a Lacanian psychoanalyst and supervisor who trained in France with the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly. Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions – from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism – and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan’s paradoxical claim that “love is giving what you don’t have.” He shows how the emptiness or lack we feel within ourselves gets covered over or entwined in love, and how it is possible and indeed vital to give something to another that we feel we ourselves don’t have. Suzanne Barnard is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, a clinical psychologist, and an experimental media artist.Bruce Fink is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and a Lacanian psychoanalyst. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Blog Podcast Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. In this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can. Lacanian psychoanalyst Bruce Fink discusses his latest work, Lacan on Love.
Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle.Ĭan psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about “what love really is”?
Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan’s paradoxical. Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. In this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can.
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