Main description:

Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the areas of psychoanalysis and rhetoric, that have rarely been discussed together within the psychoanalytic literature.

The author teams brings together the expertise of a rhetoric professor and a professional psychoanalyst to offer reciprocal perspectives.

Written in a practical, accessible style for real-world application of rhetorical ideas to psychoanalytic practice.

Will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.

Contents:

Introduction: Missed Encounters. 1. The Rhetorical Unconscious: Reconciling Rival Topographies. 2. Burke's Little Affect A. 3. Identification, Disidentification, Scapegoating, and War. 4. Beyond the Pressure Principle: Disorientation, Debunking, and Conspiracy. 5. Charcot and Freud: From Clinical Gaze to Free Association. 6. All Ears: Psychoanalysis and the Rhetoric of Listening. 7. Lacan's Psychoanalytic Rhetoric: The Power of Non-Understanding