Ruthless Winnicott: The role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political pro

Description: Ruthless Winnicott by Sally Swartz Ruthless Winnicott is an extended exploration of the role of ruthlessness in psychic development. That survival is of no use unless it is preceded by a ruthless attack is one of D.W. Winnicotts most resonant paradoxes. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Ruthless Winnicott is an extended exploration of the role of ruthlessness in psychic development. That survival is of no use unless it is preceded by a ruthless attack is one of D. W. Winnicotts most resonant paradoxes. The book links this with the search for subjective freedom for those traumatized by colonialism, and in doing so draws on the work of Algerian psychiatrist and revolutionary psychoanalytic thinker Frantz Fanon.Sally Swartz examines essential pieces of Winnicotts work on ruthlessness as central to the emergence of concern for the Other. She illustrates, with clinical examples, ways in which the ruthless use of the psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic space allows the patient either to enter fully into a process that allows growth, or to defend ruthlessly against the anxieties provoked by psychic change. Ruthless Winnicott also maps decolonial challenges to psychoanalytic theory, and the role of ruthlessness in protest movements demanding radical subjective change. Swartzs exploration of ruthlessness as both zest and defense in individual development and in protest movements illuminates processes of psychological collision and change. It traces links between individual trauma and collective turbulence, and maps ways in which ruthlessness is essential to subjective change.Ruthless Winnicott will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as scholars of colonialism, decolonization and post-colonialism. Author Biography Sally Swartz, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and academic, teaching, supervising and practising in Cape Town, South Africa. She has an enduring interest in the traumatic effects of colonialism, which was the subject of her monograph, Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (2015). Ruthless Winnicott brings together her interest in the history of colonialism in South Africa, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the decolonial turn. Table of Contents Introduction: Ruthless Winnicott and the decolonial project; Chapter One: We want to be eaten; Chapter Two: Ruthlessness and idealization; Chapter Three: Having a good peep: False selves and use of the therapeutic space; Chapter Four: The weeping couch; Chapter Five: Masks, slipping; Chapter Six: Rhodes, falling; Chapter Seven: Ruthlessness and the missing middle; Chapter Eight: Decolonizing psychoanalysis Review "Deeply immersed in both psychoanalysis and the ubiquitous turbulence of de- and post-colonization, Swartz applies her usual mental rigour and humanity to examining the discourse between individual psychic trauma and its relevance in collective trauma. Deconstructing and elaborating on Winnicotts paradoxical notion of ruthlessness, she perspicaciously tracks its relevance in the pursuit of subjective freedom and the achievement of a complex state of "ruth". Swartz achieves much in this elegant and sophisticated exploration of theory and lived experience in the dark shadows of colonial horror, finding novel ways of reconceptualizing the challenges we face as psychoanalysts and scholars immersed in deconstructing the long and tragically traumatizing effects of othering and colonization. Ruthless Winnicott is a must read."-Hazel Ipp, Ph.D., Joint Editor-in Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues"With innovative theoretical commentary and helpful clinical illustration, Sally Swartz offers a unique must read of Winnicotts concept of ruthlessness, contextualized effectively with Fanons conception of the impact of the social register on psychological suffering always understood within categories and hierarchies of power concerning race."-Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D., author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue"In Ruthless Winnicott, Sally Swartz comes brilliantly to the urgent call for relational psychoanalisis to contribute to the psycho-social-political turmoil of our times. Unmissable."-Victor Doñas MD, psychoanalyst. Santiago, Chile"Deeply immersed in both psychoanalysis and the ubiquitous turbulence of de- and post-colonization, Swartz applies her usual mental rigour and humanity to examining the discourse between individual psychic trauma and its relevance in collective trauma. Deconstructing and elaborating on Winnicotts paradoxical notion of ruthlessness, she perspicaciously tracks its relevance in the pursuit of subjective freedom and the achievement of a complex state of "ruth". Swartz achieves much in this elegant and sophisticated exploration of theory and lived experience in the dark shadows of colonial horror, finding novel ways of reconceptualizing the challenges we face as psychoanalysts and scholars immersed in deconstructing the long and tragically traumatizing effects of othering and colonization. Ruthless Winnicott is a must read."-Hazel Ipp, PhD, Joint Editor-in Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues"With innovative theoretical commentary and helpful clinical illustration, Sally Swartz offers a unique must read of Winnicotts concept of ruthlessness, contextualized effectively with Fanons conception of the impact of the social register on psychological suffering always understood within categories and hierarchies of power concerning race."-Steven Knoblauch, PhD, author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue"In Ruthless Winnicott, Sally Swartz comes brilliantly to the urgent call for relational psychoanalysis to contribute to the psycho-social-political turmoil of our times. Unmissable."-Victor Doñas, MD, psychoanalyst, Santiago, Chile Review Quote "Deeply immersed in both psychoanalysis and the ubiquitous turbulence of de- and post-colonization, Swartz applies her usual mental rigour and humanity to examining the discourse between individual psychic trauma and its relevance in collective trauma. Deconstructing and elaborating on Winnicotts paradoxical notion of ruthlessness, she perspicaciously tracks its relevance in the pursuit of subjective freedom and the achievement of a complex state of "ruth". Swartz achieves much in this elegant and sophisticated exploration of theory and lived experience in the dark shadows of colonial horror, finding novel ways of reconceptualizing the challenges we face as psychoanalysts and scholars immersed in deconstructing the long and tragically traumatizing effects of othering and colonization. Ruthless Winnicott is a must read."- Hazel Ipp, PhD , Joint Editor-in Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues "With innovative theoretical commentary and helpful clinical illustration, Sally Swartz offers a unique must read of Winnicotts concept of ruthlessness, contextualized effectively with Fanons conception of the impact of the social register on psychological suffering always understood within categories and hierarchies of power concerning race."- Steven Knoblauch, PhD , author of The Musical Edge of Therapeutic Dialogue "In Ruthless Winnicott , Sally Swartz comes brilliantly to the urgent call for relational psychoanalysis to contribute to the psycho-social-political turmoil of our times. Unmissable."- Victor Do Details ISBN1138348481 Author Sally Swartz Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138348481 ISBN-13 9781138348486 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 616.8917 Pages 158 Publication Date 2018-10-23 Short Title Ruthless Winnicott Language English UK Release Date 2018-10-23 AU Release Date 2018-10-23 NZ Release Date 2018-10-23 Subtitle The role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political protest Alternative 9781138345485 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:119979128;

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