Irreverence and Psychoanalysis
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 246
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98706
- ISBN 13 : 9781041193937
- ISBN 10 : 1041193939
Table of Contents
Introduction
Jean Petrucelli and Sarah Schoen
Section I: Getting Into Good Trouble: Race, Sex, and Enthusiasms
01. Irreverence and Humor in Theory and Practice: A Resource to Help with Mystifications and Misconceptions
Stephen Seligman
02. Notes from the Erotic Field: Potholes, Confessions, Discoveries
Sarah Schoen
03. Irreverence: A Necessary Component of Psychoanalytic Identity and Practice in Our Authoritarian and Racist World
Dorothy Evans Holmes
04. Irreverence as Love from Close-In Rather Than Faraway: “Good Trouble” From John Lewis to Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis
Anton Hart
Section II: Between Two Points: Stretching Beyond Outside In and Inside Out as Our Loyalties Are Challenged
05. Remaking Psyches in a World Being Remade
Susie Orbach
06. Ethical Irreverence, or an Analyst Outside of History
Orna Guralnik
07. All Born Screaming: Where Have All Our Appetites and Desires Gone?
Jean Petrucelli
Section III: Humans, Minds, and Brains: A Trialogue at the Edge of AI Possibility
08. Reverence and Irreverence
Amy Levy
09. Does Your Bot Give a Damn? A Brief Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective on Large Language Models
Fred Gioia
10. You’re Already an AI Revolutionary! But On Whose Side?
Todd Essig
11. Amy Levy’s Response
Amy Levy
12. Fred Gioia’s Response
Fred Gioia
13. Todd Essig’s Response
Todd Essig
Section IV: Approach with Irreverence: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexuality
14. A 1970s Feminist Psychoanalyst’s Perspective on Gender, Sex, Sexualities
Ann D’Ercole
15. May You Live in Interesting Times: Some Irreverent Reflections on Psychoanalytic Grandiosity
Jack Drescher
16. Some Thoughts on Gender
Willa N. France
17. When Irreverent Defiance Is Needed: A Call to Action
Jack Pula
Section V: Don't talk to THOSE People! Does Irreverence Calm the Waters or Fuel the Flames of Toxic Polarization?
18. Them's Fightin' Words: Rhetoric and Polarization
Sue Kolod
19. Bullet in the Brain: Reverence, Irreverence, and the Pursuit of Dialogue
Tom Hennes
20. The Gaza Ordeal; Our Sadistic Moment
Susannah Heschel
Section VI: Irreverence and Orthodoxy In Psychoanalysis
21. On Irreverence
Adam Phillips
22. Slow Therapy: Psychoanalysis as Counterculture
Don Greif
23. Genocide and the Screen of Irreverence
Avgi Saketopoulou
24. Defiant Voices: Language, Irreverence, and Impeccable Speech
Velleda C. Ceccoli

