Freudian Field Year Zero - Paperback

The texts by Miller collected in this volume open an explosive glimpse into the history of psychoanalysis, its politics, and the clinic. There are moments when history takes on a particular acceleration, as if sliding forward, and the conjuncture we are experiencing is one of these. Psychoanalysis, born in the last century and far from outdated, shows a great capacity to respond to the social, political, and institutional context in which we find ourselves. It has indeed resonated with our era, producing modes of intervention that did not exist in Freud's time and would not have been conceivable even in Lacan's years, although these two masters laid the foundations for the developments and consequences that only today we are able to draw. Different life practices – for example, the fact that in Freud's time there were no jets or Skype – imply differences in the way people relate to each other, and therefore also transform the practice and impact of psychoanalysis. Freudian field year zero indicates a time of restart, a new opening of horizons, another plane in which to situate psychoanalysis and make it interact with what today calls psychoanalysts into question on a terrain where they were already, perhaps without being able to articulate it: that of politics. Author: Jacques-Alain Miller Marco Focchi