Jason Childs – författare

On Not Fitting In: Psychoanalytic Rem(a)inders offers a distinctive meditation on contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice through a series of brief, thought-provoking essays.Through a series of interconnected sections exploring the symptom, desire, satisfaction, love, and the cure, Childs weaves together classical and recent perspectives in psychoanalysis. Drawing on a rich tapestry of references, from Freud and Lacan to influential analytic thinkers like Bruce Fink, Adam Phillips, Paul Verhaeghe, and Mari Ruti, alongside philosophical and literary sources, the book presents a mosaic of insights into identity, subjectivity, and social belonging. Deliberately fragmentary in composition, it can be read either sequentially or as individual pieces, offering readers multiple entry points into psychoanalytic thought.On Not Fitting In: Psychoanalytic Rem(a)inders will be of interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, academics and scholars of psychoanalysis, and readers interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis with contemporary life.

On Not Fitting In: Psychoanalytic Rem(a)inders offers a distinctive meditation on contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice through a series of brief, thought-provoking essays.Through a series of interconnected sections exploring the symptom, desire, satisfaction, love, and the cure, Childs weaves together classical and recent perspectives in psychoanalysis. Drawing on a rich tapestry of references, from Freud and Lacan to influential analytic thinkers like Bruce Fink, Adam Phillips, Paul Verhaeghe, and Mari Ruti, alongside philosophical and literary sources, the book presents a mosaic of insights into identity, subjectivity, and social belonging. Deliberately fragmentary in composition, it can be read either sequentially or as individual pieces, offering readers multiple entry points into psychoanalytic thought.On Not Fitting In: Psychoanalytic Rem(a)inders will be of interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training, academics and scholars of psychoanalysis, and readers interested in the intersection of psychoanalysis with contemporary life.

From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, from New Criticism to New Journalism: The story of the American essay is told here, beginning in the early eighteenth century and ending with the vibrant, heterogeneous scene of contemporary essayistic writing. The essay in the US has taken many forms: nature writing, travel writing, the genteel tradition, literary criticism, hybrid genres such as the essay film and the photo essay. Across genres and identities, this volume offers a stirring account of American essayism into the twenty-first century.