Paul Verhaeghe: 11 books

Book cover of Intimiteit
by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 15, 2018

Ben je een lichaam of heb je een lichaam? Volgens Paul Verhaeghe berust intimiteit in de eerste plaats op de relatie met jezelf en pas daarna op een relatie met anderen. De verhouding tot ons eigen lichaam legt niet alleen de basis voor intimiteit, maar ook voor onze mentale en lichamelijke gezondheid....
Book cover of Autoriteit
by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 8, 2015

Met autoriteit loopt er vandaag de dag heel wat verkeerd. Politiek en religie zijn hun geloofwaardigheid kwijt en ouders hebben geen controle over het gedrag van hun kinderen. In dit boek bevraagt Paul Verhaeghe de manier waarop autoriteit functioneert, waarom er tegenwoordig zo weinig waarde aan...
Book cover of What about Me?

What about Me?

the struggle for identity in a market-based society

by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality...
Book cover of Says Who?

Says Who?

the struggle for authority in a market-based society

by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017

‘We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared … traditional authority is lapsing into brute force … and we ourselves must take the first steps towards creating a new social order.’ This was the trenchant diagnosis by Paul Verhaeghe at the end of his...
Book cover of Identiteit
by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 11, 2012

Maatschappelijke veranderingen hebben gezorgd voor een veranderd ik-gevoel. Paul Verhaeghe onderzoekt de effecten van dertig jaar neoliberalisme, vrijemarktwerking, privatisering en de relatie tussen de maakbare samenleving en onze identiteit. Wie wij zijn wordt zoals altijd bepaald door de context...
Book cover of Liefde in tijden van eenzaamheid
by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 14, 2011

Liefde, erotiek en seksualiteit; onderwerpen die nooit aan belangstelling zullen inboeten. Samen met Erwin Mortier reviseerde en actualiseerde Paul Verhaeghe zijn spraakmakende bestseller Liefde in tijden van eenzaamheid, drie kritische verhandelingen over de hedendaagse seksuele verhoudingen tussen...
Book cover of Beyond Gender

Beyond Gender

From Suject to Drive

by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration...
Book cover of Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Reflections on Seminar XVII, sic vi

by Jacques-Alain Miller, Paul Verhaeghe, Ellie Ragland
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important...
Book cover of Does the Woman Exist?

Does the Woman Exist?

From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine

by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013

This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation...
Book cover of On Being Normal and Other Disorders

On Being Normal and Other Disorders

A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019

The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all forms of treatment depends upon the...
Book cover of Love in a Time of Loneliness
by Paul Verhaeghe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

The first essay, "The Impossible Couple", is both a humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman. In the second essay, "Fleeing Fathers", the author demonstrates that today the Freudian Oedipus complex has disappeared, with a resulting...
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