Background
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen was born in 1951, in Denmark.
University of Washington
Vincennes University
University of Strasbourg
(Just what is the subject in Freud? The author draws on a ...)
Just what is the subject in Freud? The author draws on a wide range of French critical thought to argue that the subject is always fundamentally identification, in an even more radical sense than has previously been postulated. Rigorously examining the texts of Freud, he arrives at compelling rereadings of familiar concepts, concluding with a disturbing new analysis of the social bond.
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1991
(The eight essays collected here extend the author's re-ev...)
The eight essays collected here extend the author's re-evaluation of the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and thereby develop his arguments for increased attention to the role of affect - of the emotional tie, in our conceptions of the psychoanalytic subject. The author analyses the political and ethical implications of Freud's work in the first part 'Freudian Politics'. In the second section, 'From Psychoanalysis to Hypnosis', he shows what might be gained by reinstating hypnosis as central to psychoanalytic questioning. The third section, 'The Unconscious and Philosophy', examines Freud's relation to a tradition of philosophical interpretation. The author devotes special attention to where the unconscious fits, how it comes to be a mode of explanation, within such an interpretation. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the relations between philosophy and literature and in psychoanalytic theory generally. It may also be of interest to practising analysts.
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1993
(Remembering Anna O. offers a devastating examination of t...)
Remembering Anna O. offers a devastating examination of the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory and practice, which was born with the publication of Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria in 1895. Breuer described the case of Anna O., a young woman afflicted with a severe hysteria whom he had cured of her symptoms by having her recount under hypnosis the traumatic events that precipitated her illness. Drawing on the most recent Freud scholarship and on long-secret documents, Borch-Jacobsen demonstrates, however, that Anna O. (Bertha Pappenheim) was never cured by Breuer's "talking cure" and that both Breuer and Freud knowingly falsified the historical record. Borch-Jacobsen points out the numerous inconsistencies in Breuer's account that suggests that Anna O.'s symptoms were simulated to meet Breuer's theoretical expectations and that her famed "reminiscences" were in fact fictitious memories induced by Breuer in the course of a hypnotic treatment.
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1996
(A perfect gift for the psychoanalyst in your life and whi...)
A perfect gift for the psychoanalyst in your life and which will also be of interest to anyone concerned with debunking any illusion of the past about them. This book will be the pride and joy of the psychoanalyst for many years to come.
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2006
(Why do "maladies of the soul" such as hysteria, anxiety d...)
Why do "maladies of the soul" such as hysteria, anxiety disorders, or depression wax and wane over time? Through a study of the history of psychiatry, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provocatively argues that most mental illnesses are not, in fact, diseases but the product of varying expectations shared and negotiated by therapists and patients. With a series of fascinating historical vignettes, stretching from Freud's creation of false memories of sexual abuse in his early hysterical patients to today's promotion and marketing of depression by drug companies, Making Minds and Madness offers a powerful critique of all the theories, such as psychoanalysis and biomedical psychiatry, that claim to discover facts about the human psyche while, in reality, producing them. Borch-Jacobsen proposes such objectivizing approaches should be abandoned in favor of a constructionist and relativist psychology that recognizes the artifactual and interactive character of psychic productions instead of attempting to deny or control it.
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2009
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen was born in 1951, in Denmark.
Borch-Jacobsen studied philosophy with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, two philosophers close in thought to, and in dialogue with, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
In 1981, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg.
Borch-Jacobsen began teaching at the department of psychoanalysis at Vincennes University in Paris in 1981. In 1986 he emigrated to the United States. Since then, he holds the position of a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Washington in Seattle.
(Why do "maladies of the soul" such as hysteria, anxiety d...)
2009(The eight essays collected here extend the author's re-ev...)
1993(Just what is the subject in Freud? The author draws on a ...)
1991(A perfect gift for the psychoanalyst in your life and whi...)
2006(Remembering Anna O. offers a devastating examination of t...)
1996Borch-Jacobsen is known for his positions in virulent debates about psychoanalysis – called the Freud Wars – especially with regard to his 2005 publication of Le Livre noir de la psychanalyse ("The Black Book of Psychoanalysis").