Overview
- Combines a theoretical and clinical overview of historical and current issues around anxiety
- Makes a feminist intervention on the clinic of anxiety
- Bridges the fields of art, philosophy and psychological humanities in an applied way
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Studies in the Psychosocial (STIP)
Buy print copy
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
About this book
This open access book draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari alongside Lacan and Freud to offer a radical psychosocial survey of the status of anxiety. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book examines key issues in contemporary diagnosis and points towards possibilities for forging a more creative clinic. Departing from a feminist, non-Oedipal positioning towards psychoanalytic texts, the author invites art theory, medical humanities and philosophy into a conversation that seeks to answer the question: What can anxiety do?
Here, Ana Minozzo explores the possibilities of an encounter with the Real as a sphere of excessive affect in psychoanalysis, and terms this meeting a ‘vibration’. Situating this enquiry within the art practice of Lygia Clark, the book utilises vibration as a conceptual artifice when considering affects, their ethical horizons and a psychoanalytic possibility for creating new ways of living. This book offers exciting new perspective on anxiety for students, clinical trainees, art and humanities researchers and practitioners and those interested in psychoanalytic ideas in general.
Keywords
Table of contents (9 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Reviews
“This book vibrates with hope, tracking traditional psychoanalytic arguments about anxiety in a marvellously clear way, and opening up possibilities in cultural and clinical practice for a bodily engagement with the theories of subjectivity that shape us, that frame contemporary commonsense. Ana Minozzo gives us exposition, argument and alternative, a rare achievement, ground-breaking and shaking us to think anew about anxiety and do something different with it.” (Ian Parker, psychoanalyst, Honorary Professor of Education, University of Manchester, UK)
“Minozzo's Anxiety as Vibration is a terrific and impressive read: a lively and scholarly cross-disciplinary work, it dissects anxiety in its pharmaceutical logics, its psychoanalytic understandings, and its artistic potential, and the resulting work amounts to an energetic exploration of anxiety as an altogether more fascinating state than we might usually allow. I thoroughly enjoyed it and cannot recommend it enough.” (Katherine Angel, writer, author of “Tomorrow Sex Will be Good Again”)
“In Anxiety as Vibration, Ana Minozzo transgresses the limits of classic psychoanalytic practice and theory providing a complex and contemporary concept of anxiety. It is described both as central figure of psycho-estrangement and as a possible focus of resistance and entanglement. In this sense, Minozzo asks not only what can be done to anxiety but also points towards Spinozian answers of ‘what anxiety can do’. On the basis of a transversal reading of the history and conceptuality of anxiety, the book offers a feminist perspective on Freud and Lacan. Against individualist and normalizing concepts of wellbeing and pathology it arrives at the necessity of reinventing psychoanalysis, in an aberrant clinic of anxiety and with the help of relational concepts like co-poiesis, sinthôme, and vibration.” (Gerald Raunig, philosopher, author of “Making Multiplicity”)
“In this startlingly creative work, Ana Minozzo weaves together artistic, clinical and theoretical modes of enquiry to demonstrate the paradoxical yet essential value of anxiety for the modern, entangled subject. Defying psychoanalytic orthodoxies, Minozzo upends individualising methods of managing suffering through her invention of a 'vibrational' clinical practice. Forget intoxication - read this book and feel the vibration!” (Jordan Osserman, University of Essex, UK, author of “Circumcision on the Couch”)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ana C. Minozzo is a psychoanalyst and researcher based in London, UK. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychosocial Studies at the University of Essex where she is part of the FREEPSY collective research on the legacies of free psychoanalytic clinics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anxiety as Vibration
Book Subtitle: A Psychosocial Cartography
Authors: Ana C. Minozzo
Series Title: Studies in the Psychosocial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62856-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-62855-9Published: 30 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-62858-0Published: 04 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-62856-6Published: 29 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-2629
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2637
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 247
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy, Clinical Psychology, Cultural Theory