Jorge Forbes ten books to think about psychoanalysis

Jorge Forbes ten books to think about psychoanalysis what books will be commented? Do you want your own desire? Jorge Forbes The work brings, through facts, chronicles and psychoanalytic theory, that wanting does not exhaust desire and reveals the essential gap between man and the world. So we don't necessarily want what we want. The book also speaks of the anguish inherent in decision-making. There is no decision that does not induce the subject to risk and, consequently, to the possibility of loss. The so-called “stress” can be a consequence of the fear of deciding, faced with an avalanche of options. FORBES, Jorge. Do you want your own desire?. 12th Edition. Publisher Manole, 2016. show less about dreams Sigmund Freud One of Freud's greatest discoveries was that dreams are not chance or foam. In this sense, dreams are not random; they are formed from what Freud called “dream work”, which consists of the deformation of dream material, from the functions of displacement and condensation. Dreams say, speak, express: they are, in the Freudian sense, realizations of repressed desires. Therefore, they are the royal road to access the unconscious. In “On Dreams”, Freud reveals the grammar of this language of the unconscious. FREUD, Sigmund. About Dreams. 1st edition. Text Editors. 2012. show less The Transhumanist Revolution Luc Ferry How will society deal with the development of genetics and artificial intelligence? What will be the ethical limits of choosing the characteristics of human beings – eradicating genetic diseases in the embryo, eliminating death or delaying aging? In short: are we going to shape a new post-human species? While many people express either fear or enthusiasm for the power of artificial intelligence, transhumanists, on the other hand, think of multiple ways to combine artificial intelligence with human subjectivity in this new era. FERRY, Luc. The Transhumanist Revolution. 1st edition. Publisher Manole, 2018. show less Antigone sophocles Written approximately 2,500 years ago, Antigone is one of the most important pieces of Greek tragedy. Daughter of Jocasta and Oedipus, she fights against her uncle Creon, heir to the throne of Thebes, to give her brother Polynices – considered a traitor – a dignified burial. In Greek culture, whoever died and was not buried according to the funeral rites would be condemned to wander a hundred years on the banks of the river that led to the world of the dead, without being able to go to the other side. The right to a burial according to proper solemnities was the means of reaching the realm of the dead. In Antigone, we will be able to comment on what is a tragic issue: Creon wants to leave Polynices unburied, because he attacked the city; Antigone wants to bury him because he is her brother. Who is right? Both! The polarization that we suffer today is due to the fact that we are faced with different truths that are not mutually exclusive! SOPHOCLES. Antigone. 11th Edition. Paz & Terra Publishing House, 2021. show less Civilization and its malaise Sigmun Freud One of Freud's best known and most debated books, the work addresses the classic question of Psychoanalysis - desire in relation to the law. In The Discontents in Civilization, Freud maintains, as a presupposition, that civilization prints a mismatch between man and the world, which leads to malaise. In the transit between the individual and society, something stands between these two poles, it mediates: it is the law imposed by civilization. The nature of civilization as a vehicle of happiness is at odds with the satisfaction of drives: “we can say that the intention that man be “happy” is not found in the plan of Creation”, says the author. In order to live in civilization, each one of us donates a share of his desire, in the name of the common good, and expects in return a refund of his initial effort. The malaise comes from the constant feeling of injustice. What to do? FREUD, Sigmund. Civilization and its malaise. 1st edition. Penguin and Companhia das Letras, 2011. show less The Discontents of Post-Modernity Zygmunt Bauman Bauman's title is a reference to the Freudian classic. For the sociologist, post-modernity is strongly marked by the “will to freedom”, which he believes opposes the stability of civilization as abstention from a portion of our desire, as advocated by Freud. In this sense, he updates the issues of malaise analyzed by Freud in 1930, in the light of post-modernity, of the true tsunami that we are going through and that inaugurates a new time. BAUMAN, Zygmunt. The Discontents of Post-Modernity. 1st edition. Publisher Zahar, 1998. show less A Season with Lacan Pierre Rey Possibly, it is the best account of an analysis with Jacques Lacan: “I want to say that instead of subjecting my desires to my means, I decided to pay the price, I thought it better to create means for my desires, starting from desire to multiply life, instead to adjust desires to the facts of life”. REY, Pierre. A Season with Lacan. 1st edition. Freud Company, 2010.