Main description:

Builds on the influential work of the editors on body issues in psychoanalysis * Contains contributions from major names internationally in the area * Offers key theory and practical insights

Contents:

General Introduction Prologue: Earlier Barriers to Pleasure Part One: Crises of Ideals, Delibidinalization and its Discontents for our Contemporary World Introduction 1. Preface to Kristeva's Work: Vitality Against Virality and Virtuality In the Current State of War, it is our Most Inner Selves That We Must Save 2. Preface to Contri's Work: Thinking, Drive, Law A. The Science of Thought: The Thought of Satisfaction B. Three Chapters to be Remembered and Post-Scriptum 3. Dead Mother(Ire)land Part Two: Delibidinalization and the Malaise of the Contemporary Subject Introduction 1. Uncanny Drives: On Nightmares and Wish Fulfillment 2. Ridding Oneself of Reality 3. On the Roots of Addictive Behavior in Narcissist Vulnerability and Lack of Transitional Area 4. Reaching for the Impossible Jouissance: The Contemporary Addictive Female 5. The Risk of Loss: Anxiety and Depression in Women 6. Enemies of Unpleasure 7. Resistance to Psychoanalysis 8. Unjoined Persons: Psychic Isolation and Bodily Symptoms in Adolescence 9. Death, Life, Birth and Sublimation in the Pandemic 10. Death and the Use of Pleasure 11. Destructive Envy and the Narcissistic Grip 12. "...whatever..." Afterword