Movement Velocity and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

<p><em>Movement Velocity and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s)</em> explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories as well as artworks that show sensible bodily rituals for reviving our social and subjective lives. With a wide range of contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds it informs readers on how to find rituals for syncing ourselves with others and world rhythms. </p><p>The book is divided into three parts on variability speed and slowness and explores rhythmic rituals of renewal revolution and reflection. Each chapter provides unique examples from the applied arts film television and literature to show how different practices of rhythm might aid in creative and deep contemplation and includes philosophical and cultural theories for bodily and rhythmic renewal. Without being limited to a clinical perspective this book provides wide-ranging discussions of the relation between rhythm trauma cultural studies psychosocial studies continental philosophy critical psychology Lacan and film to<b> </b>explore modes of becoming more attuned to each moment to others and to our own era. </p><p>Movement Velocity and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective will be essential reading for Lacanian psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as anyone interested in rhythm at the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.</p>