Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis

Thomas Svolos is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, and a Member of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He practices in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also serves as Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the Creighton University School of Medicine.

'This book is very original. It intends to introduce the reader to present-day clinical developments within the Lacanian orientation and at the same time to serve as a subjective testimony, a Bildungsroman. Its presentation of twenty-first century psychoanalysis plunges the advances of Jacques-Alain Miller's reading of the "last Lacan" within the current American clinical context. The Bildungsroman describes the subjective path between the encounter with Lacan in the humanities at Duke University and the modulation given to its clinical practice by the author, Chair of a Psychiatry Department. This route goes through the experience of a psychoanalytic cure in its present-day form. One of the aims of the book is to introduce the theoretical displacements of Lacan's teachings as answers to the clinical challenges met by a practitioner as aware of the societal aspects of the symptom as to its singular aspects. And so he does! It's a success.'-Eric Laurent, past president of the World Association of Psychoanalysis

• Preface -- Introduction -- Twenty-first century psychoanalysis -- On the Legacy of Jacques Lacan in the United States -- Jacques Lacan, reader -- Lacanian Explications -- From the father to a father -- Terrible events and their relation to the universal trauma of subjectivity -- Fundamental fantasy as the axiom of the unconscious -- Introducing the symptom -- The supposed-to know-to read-otherwise -- The body politic -- The psychoanalytic soapbox -- Addiction -- Introducing the new symptoms -- More, more, more addiction -- Psychosis -- Ordinary psychosis -- Ordinary psychosis in the era of sinthome and semblant -- Encore, Encore: Conceptual Extracts from Seminar 20 -- Encore, encore: knowledge -- Encore, encore: love -- Encore, encore: feminine -- Remarks on Psychoanalysis -- The specificity of psychoanalysis relative to psychotherapy -- Neurasthenic psychoanalysis and the Name of the Father -- Countertransference is the symptom of the analyst -- There is no situation in the United States -- Remarks on the Mental Health Field -- The American plague -- A comment on the segregation in the clinic today -- Realist, modern, and postmodern diagnosis in the psychiatric field -- The crumbled building blocks of evidence-based medicine -- Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public mental health