In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Julie Reshe PhD about Negative psychoanalysis. While conventional psychotherapy implies the promise of deliverance from the tragedy of existence and therefore inherently pathologizes human suffering, negative psychoanalysis conceptually and practically engages with the negative aspects of existence. Drawing from the theoretical premises of depressive realism and philosophical pessimism, it acknowledges negative aspects of human existence as essential and innate. It genuinely delves into realms such as death, suicide, trauma, anxiety, depression, despair, melancholy, loss of self, hopelessness, and other dimensions of suffering.
Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of a negative psychoanalytic approach. She earned her PhD studying psychoanalysis at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the supervision of Alenka Zupančič. At present she holds the position of a Visiting Professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies.
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