Ebook: Hegel and psychoanalysis: a new interpretation of Phenomenology of spirit

"Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Hegel and Psychoanalysis centers a consideration of the Phenomenology on the figure of the Unhappy Consciousness and the concept of Force, two areas that are often overlooked by studies which focus on the master/slave dialectic. This book offers reasons for why now, more than ever, we need to recognize how concepts of intersubjectivity, Force, the Third, and binding are essential to an understanding of our modern world. Such concepts can allow for an interrogation of what can be seen as the profoundly false and constructed senses of community and friendship created by social networking sites, and further an idea of a "global community," which thrives at the expense of authentic intersubjective relations"--;Setting the Stage -- French Hegel and the Necessity for the Unhappy Consciousness -- Hegel and Psychoanalysis -- Hegel, Psychoanalysis, and the Concept of Intersubjectivity -- The Concept of Force and its Role in the Phenomenology -- What Follows -- 1. Hegel's Concept of Forse in the Phenomenology of Spirit -- Introduction -- A Preliminary Definition of Force -- The Concept of Vanishing -- Force as a Universal Medium -- Expression and Repression/Suppression -- Explanation -- Infinity and Force -- The Inner World, the "Void," and the Play of Forces -- Conclusion -- Hegel's Re-Running of the Play of Forces as a Way of Understanding Intersubjectivity and its Discontents -- Introduction -- The Force of Self-Consciousness or the Binding of Desire -- The Concept of Life -- The Desire and the Birth of Spirit -- Lordship and Bondage: The Intersubjective Play of Forces or the Binding to the Other -- Stoicism and Scepticism: Testing the Limits of Force and the Process of Unbinding -- The Unhappy Consciousness: The Internalised Play of Force, the Introduction of the Vanishing Mediator and the Process of Rebinding -- Conclusion -- 3. Negation, Binding, and Thirdness: The André Green-Hegel Couple -- Introduction -- Implicit Versus Explicit Connections: Green's Hegel-Freud Couple -- Locating the Origins of Thought and Judgment: A Reading of 'Negation' through the Lens of Force -- Green and the Work of the Negative -- Intrapsychic Binding and Unbinding -- Freud's 'Project For Scientific Psychology' and 'Beyond -- The Pleasure Principle': The Origin and Later Articulation of the Binding Process -- 'Project For a Scientific Psychology' -- 'Beyond The Pleasure Principle' -- Green's Tripartite Process -- The Concept of the Third and Thirdness: The Breakdown in the Play of Forces and the Introduction of the Proto-Analyst -- Green's Introduction of the "Tertiary Process" or "Analytic Binding" -- Thirdness and the Analytic Third -- Ogden's Analytic Third -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- The Use of the Term "Object" -- Psychoanalysis as a Dialectic -- Further Theoretical Grounding of the Third -- Bollas and the Creation of Psychic Genera as a Form of the Third -- The Generative Nature of Destruction: Bollas, Free 4. Thought Structures and Shapes of Knowing: Christopher Bollas, the Elaboration of "The Third, "and the Binding Process --Introduction -- The Use of the Term "Object" -- Psychoanalysis as a Dialectic -- Further Theoretical Grounding of the Third -- Bollas and the Creation of Psychic Genera as a Form of the Third -- The Generative Nature of Destruction: Bollas, Free Association, and the Binding/Unbinding Process -- Hegel, Psychoanalysis, and Shapes of Knowing -- Conclusion.