Book, Loving Dictionary of Psychoanalysis[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. An affective script in the history of psychoanalysis In this book, Elisabeth Roudinesco abandons her usual academic approach to give free rein to unprecedented chains. Instead of concepts, actors or countries, the reader finds themes, words, fictions and territories brought together in an arbitrary and personal way, in addition to citations, references and an onomastic index. Something like an imaginary adventure woven through the course of one's pen, a journey without destination, an affective script with unexpected entries that can be read in sequence or not. Crossing cities and museums, characters, poems and novels that are familiar to him or that he enjoys in particular, Roudinesco adopts the intuitive method to explain to the reader how psychoanalysis fed on literature, cinema, theater, travel and mythology to become a culture universal. From “Love” to “Zurich”, passing through “Animals”, “Brazilian Cities”, “The Second Sex”, “Hollywood”, “David Cronenberg”, “Jesuits”, “Sherlock Holmes”, “Marilyn Monroe”, “ Paris”, “Happiness”, “Psyche”, “Leonardo da Vinci” and much more – the book brings together a vast array of experiences and words. “I have always loved dictionaries. They contain a knowledge that is like a permanent mystery. Every time I open a dictionary, I know I'm going to find something new, something secret I hadn't thought of, stories, words, names, figures of speech. A dictionary is a vast place of memory, a maze-like account, a wandering inventory, an expanding list” from the introduction, by Elisabeth Roudinesco.