@article{1471769,
      author = {Tal, Mohamed,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1471769},
      title = {The end of analysis : the dialectics of symbolic and real  /},
      abstract = {Tals book doesnt propose an answer that would safeguard  the status of psychoanalysis but rather a series of  paradoxes that undermine its secure status. The end of  analysis appears rather as a fantasy, not the traversal of  the fantasy but the maintaining of it. From the Foreword by  Professor Mladen Dolar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia  This book interrogates the end of analysis in  psychoanalytic thought from Freud to Lacan. It demonstrates  that the notions of mourning, renunciation, liquidation of  transference, and traversal of fantasy cannot serve as a  settlement for the castration complex (i.e., central to  neurosis) but are rather prey to the castration complex  itself. It shows how psychoanalysis remains incomplete as  long as it has not surpassed them as fantasies sustained by  psychoanalytic ideology. In other words, it argues that the  analytic procedure must pull psychoanalysis out of this  therapeutic tradition for it to be complete and to  instigate an attempt of its renewal. The book equally  revisits Freuds and Lacans underpinnings in the  Enlightenment project, in order to formulate the problem of  transference on proper dialectical foundationsthat is, the  mechanism of alienation from Descartes to Hegel,  Kierkegaards concept of anxiety, as well as the concepts of  authority and value in Durkheim, Mauss, and Marx. In doing  so, it provides fresh insights that will appeal to  practitioners, as well as to scholars of psychoanalysis and  philosophy. Mohamed Tal is a Clinical Psychologist and  Psychoanalyst; he held a private practice in Beirut,  Lebanon, since 2009 and moved to practice in Dubai, UAE,  since 2022. He is an affiliate of the Rome Institute, and a  member of the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and  Research (BICAR). Dr Tal has worked as a Psychotherapist  with humanitarian organizations in the Middle East,  including Doctors Without Borders, WarChild Holland,  Handicap International, and Deutsche Gesellschaft fr  Internationale Zusammenarbeit. He also held a seminar on  The Real at the cole Libanaise de Psychanalyse from 2018 to  2021.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29889-9},
      recid = {1471769},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}