Resistance and Psychoanalysis

Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction The Love of Lacan (Derrida, Žižek)Section I Violence and Resistance1. Impossible Divisions: Fanon, Hegel and psychoanalysis2. Civility and its Discontents: Balibar, Arendt, Lyotard3. What is a Complex? Freudian resistances4. Fleeced: Derrida and ‘the deciding discourse of castration’ 5. The University and the Hysteric (after Derrida and Freud)Section II Phobic Resistances6. Detestable Residue: from psychoanalysis to Blanchot and Lyotard7. Something (or Nothing) to be Scared Of: Meillassoux, Klein, Kristeva8. Fear of the Open: resistances of the public sphere9. Lupus (Adler and Freud)

In the context of contemporary debates around new materialisms and modes of existence that double as modes of resistance, Simon Morgan Wortham’s return to the disputes between Derrida and Lacan could not be more timely. The book is essential reading for anyone committed to the future of theory: from the strategic purchase of its analytic antinomies, aporias, frontings, unlockings, counterings, complaints, lapses, drifts and fleecings, to the understanding of what Wortham dubs, with decided flair, the 'complex' complex.