Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the art of living.”
Mari Ruti Libri
Mari Ruti è Distinguished Professor di teoria critica e studi di genere e sessualità. È una studiosa interdisciplinare che opera all'intersezione tra teoria contemporanea, filosofia continentale, teoria psicoanalitica, studi culturali, teoria del trauma, etica postumanista e studi di genere e sessualità. Ruti esplora le complesse relazioni tra questi campi, offrendo nuove prospettive sulla nostra comprensione dell'esperienza umana. Il suo lavoro è caratterizzato da un approccio interdisciplinare e da un profondo impegno verso le questioni contemporanee più urgenti.
The Summons of Love
- 180pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
We are conditioned to think love's purpose is to heal wounds, make us happy, and give our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs, and love causes us to feel fractured, disenchanted, and full of existential turmoil, our suffering is compounded by the sense that love has failed us, or that we've failed to experience what so many others effortlessly enjoy.In this eloquently argued, psychologically-informed book, Mari Ruti portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon prompting us to access the depths of human existence. Love's ruptures are as important as its triumph.
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
- 312pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations.
The Singularity of Being offers a Lacanian interpretation on what makes each of us a unique and irreplaceable creature. Focusing on the Lacanian real, it builds a theory of individual distinctiveness while also intervening in critical debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, the self-other relationship, and effective political and ethical action.