Unikum 09 November Web

The conclusive questions
Before I conclude with anything, I want to make sure that I
am not trying to say that Lacanian psychoanalysis and post-
Lacanian philosophy should replace mainstream psychiatry
and psychology entirely, but I hope the subfields will be able to
enrich the main fields with nuanced perspectives.
My concern for philosophy is that Lacan’s so called “antiphilosophy”
haunts the field, bringing the field into some kind of
crisis. Which I think is fair to say we see today; look at the state
of philosophy. To respond to this, I believe one must engage with
“
only those who have had the courage to work through
Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called
‘contemporary philosophers’. There are not many of them.
– Theoretical Writings, (emphasis added)
Lacanian psychoanalysis and post-Lacanian philosophy. Why
are not more philosophers doing that? It is only appropriate
of me to quote post-Lacanian philosopher Alain Badiou (2004)
here:
I hope practitioners in psychology, and philosophers, dare to
take Lacanian psychoanalysis and post-Lacanian philosophy
seriously today. Especially in light of the current predicament
in mental health and the (political) crises that affect our mental
health, which can be seen as at least two of the causes producing
the saddening results in the SHoT survey. Because I think the
subfields can help the same practitioners to think (critically)
about their positions and in addition, I think these two subfields
can help to explain the lack more clearly in the philosophical
foundation of mainstream psychiatry/psychology.
Though I acknowledge that mainstream psychology’s approach
helps some, my concern for psychiatry/psychology is that there
is too little philosophizing and too little naivety. Why? Because
I believe we are more complex (but in some paradoxical sense,
simpler) than what mainstream psychology manages to account
for. The lack of philosophizing/thinking appears to be the result
of a lack of courage, curiosity, thinking and even some laziness.
Why is that?
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