Posttraumatic Joy

A Seminar on Nietzsche’s Tragicomic Philosophy of Life

Matthew Clemente (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

72 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-39197-7 (ISBN)

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Posttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzsche’s corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic perspective with a particular bent toward how they might illuminate ways of coping with and living beyond trauma and suffering. Through a series of transcribed and edited lectures—originally delivered as a part of the "Nietzsche for Clinicians" workshop run through the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College—this work traces the genesis of such fundamental psychoanalytic concepts as repression, the death drive, and the Oedipus complex to the works of one of philosophy’s most audacious and original thinkers. Reading Nietzsche not as a philosopher in the traditional sense, but as a proto-psychoanalyst, a precursor to Freud and Lacan, this work explores his understanding of the origins of morality, the value of sublimation, the movement from mourning to melancholia—or, in Nietzsche’s terms, from trauma to tragedy—and the possibility of a life lived in affirmation and self-overcoming.

This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners whose work intersects with continental philosophy and theoretical and philosophical psychology. This includes any psychotherapist, social worker, psychoanalyst, or pastoral counselor with an interest in understanding the deeply psychological philosophy of one of history’s greatest thinkers.

Matthew Clemente is a husband and father.. He is a Research Fellow in the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College and the Assistant Editor of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion. His latest book, Technology and Its Discontents (coauthored with David Goodman), is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Andrew J. Zeppa is a graduate student in philosophy at Boston College.

1. Mourning and Melancholia: From Trauma to The Birth of Tragedy 2. The Value of Values: The Psychology of Morals 3. Bad Conscience: Whence the Super-Ego 4. God is Dead: Living in the Absence of the Father 5. Our Virtue: An Honest Look at Suffering and Joy 6. Appendix

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	170 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-032-39197-9 / 1032391979
ISBN-13	978-1-032-39197-7 / 9781032391977
Zustand	Neuware