Psychoanalysis

[close] The aim of the group is to gather people interested in psychoanalysis in a lay or professional or professional way.

[close] Nonfiction books about the things that matter, so that we can learn, reflect, discuss and take action.

[close] This group is about queer and LGBT issues and perspectives in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theories and approaches. The goals are to list and share references of relevant books on psychoanalysis that have an affirmative/pro-LGBT/queer stance or that are critical about traditional homophobic, heterosexist, transphobic, or cisexist theories in psychoanalysis, and to foster discussions and exchanges about psychotherapy with LGBT people and the influence of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theories on social issues affecting LGBT people.

[close] Sylvia Bataille somehow bagged Jacques Lacan("the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", according to Mr. Google, which as we all know: never tells a lie) , AND!!! Georges Bataille, French writer, anthropologist, archivist and philosopher best known for his novella Story of the Eye. This group is primarily a discussion board based on "What was so captivating about Sylvia Bataille? (in theory) " I guess I just think she has one hellov'a track record as far as marital partners go. Sylvia Bataille achieved the modern day equivalent of a Clinton-Lewinsky-scandal followed by a an Instagram official relationship status with Slavoj Žižek...okay obviously that is only hypothetically accurate but in terms of who she could (in theory) be seen coupling-up with in the tabloids of 2021 I'd say that my statement is empirically and irrefutably factual. ...this may be one of those things where she must've been a member of the social elite so naturally the men she ended up with were very well known popular figures, but I have become fixated on her, and I believe there was something especially special about her. -Hunt, Jamer Kennedy (1995). "Absence to presence: The life history of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan (France)". Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations. unarchived on 18 October 2021.