Clinical Spinoza

<p>Discovering Spinoza's early modern psychology some 35 years into his own clinical practice, Ian Miller now gives shape to this connection through a close reading of Spinoza's key philosophical ideas. </p><p>With a rigorous and expansive analysis of Spinoza's <em>Ethics</em> in particular, Miller explores how Spinozan thought simultaneously empowered the original conceptual direction of psychoanalytic thinking, and anticipated the field's contemporary theoretical dimensions. Miller offers a detailed overview of the philosopher's psychoanalytic reception from the early work of German-langauge psychoanalytic thinkers, such as Freud and Lou Andreas-Salomé, forward into its Anglophone reception, influencing both mid-century humanistic American psychoanalysis as well as anticipating thinkers such as Bion and Winnicott. </p><p>Covering key concepts in psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, this book demonstrates how knowledge of Spinoza's philosophical work can help to both illulminate and improve modern psychoanalytic therapies.</p> <p>Introduction <strong>Part 1</strong>: 1. The Philosopher of Psychoanalysis (I) 2. The Philosopher of Psychoanalysis (II) <strong>Part 2</strong>: 3. Freud's Negative Particle 4. Contextualizing Spinoza 5. A First Reading <strong>Part 3</strong>: 6. <em>Ethics</em>, Part I 7. <em>Ethics</em>, Part II 8. A General Understanding of Clinical Method 9. Conclusion, Part III <strong>Part 4</strong>: 10. Clinical Spinoza 11. Tools of Inquiry <strong>Part 5</strong>: 12. The Multiple Polarities of Freud's Negative Particle</p>