Project
Trauma Theory and Childhoods in African Fiction
This monograph project intervenes in the timely debate around the ‘decolonisation’ of trauma theory by providing a revised understanding of the theory’s Euro-American foundations primarily dominated by Freudian psychoanalysis and northern scholarship on the issue of difference.
Publication
De Kunst van een Onmogelijk Genot: Klinische antropologie van de hysterie bij Freud en Lacan
Philippe Van Haute, Tomas Geyskens. 2010. De Kunst van een Onmogelijk Genot: Klinische antropologie van de hysterie bij Freud en Lacan. Utre...
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Torture Old and New (The Second James MacKeith Lecture)
A Chaskalson. 2010. Torture Old and New (The Second James MacKeith Lecture). Journal of the British Psychoanalytical Society
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A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis?: A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Works of Freud and Lacan (Figures of the Unconscious)
Philippe Van Hauite and Tomas Geyskens. 2012. A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis?: A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Works of Freud and L...
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On the physiology of jouissance: interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a psychoanalytic perspective
Ariane Bazan and Sandrine Detandt. 2013. On the physiology of jouissance: interpreting the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward functions from a p...
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The patho-analysis of existence
Van Haute, Philippe and Desmond Painter. 2017. The patho-analysis of existence (in final stage of publication)
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Towards a Politics of Singularity, or Beyond Identity Politics
Cutting across the boundaries of recent political theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, this project aims to show that the link between one human being and another, the social bond, consists of a traumatic encounter.
