Matt Ffytche
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Ffytche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Ffytche |
| SIGNATURE | FFYTCHE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5994-6640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love Actually
Psychoanalysis for the People
In this introduction, the editors outline the aim of the Free Clinics special issue: that of articulating a new vocabulary in psychoanalysis, which can reflect its dimensions of critical and progressive discourse and practice, while tracing the little-known histories of free psychoanalytic clinics. Through this special issue, new questions become possible about what it means to socialise and collectivise the practices that inscribe the social voc…
Setting Psychoanalytic Historiography on a New Footing
Sinopsychoanalysis
Reports from the last ten years on the 'discovery' of psychoanalysis in Chinawhether excited or sceptical, and whether counting the onset from the pre-Tiananmen 1980s era of 'Freud fever', or (more frequently) the 'explosion of professional and popular interests in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychology in China's major cities' since the early 2000s (Huang and Kirsner, 2020, p. 3)have been fraught with all the generic difficulties of conce…
Throwing the case open
For John Forrester, the ‘case’, particularly in its psychoanalytic version, makes possible a science of the particular – knowledge open to the differences of individuals and situations. This article takes up that aspect of Forrester’s account that linked the psychoanalytic case with forms of autobiography – new narrations of that particular self. After Freud, many authors – literary and psychoanalytic – have taken up the challenge of narrating su…
Real fantasies
Psychoanalytic sociology and the traumas of history
This article examines the way aspects of recent history were excluded in key studies emerging from psychoanalytic social psychology of the mid-20th century. It draws on work by Erikson, Marcuse and Fromm, but focuses in particular on Alexander Mitscherlich. Mitscherlich, a social psychologist associated with the later Frankfurt School, was also the most important psychoanalytic figure in postwar Germany. This makes his work significant for tracin…
Night of the Unexpected
This essay attempts a critical analysis of the boom in 'uncanny' theory. As the 'uncanny' has carved its image in cultural, political, sociological and aesthetic theory, there has been little attempt to challenge the notion that all critical work is or should be uncanny. Introductions to the concept, such as those by Nicholas Royle and more recently Anna Masschelein, have tended to promote its ubiquity and irreducibility, even while acknowledging…
The Foundation of the Unconscious
The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? This interdisciplinary study traces the emergence…
The Foundation of the Unconscious
The unconscious, cornerstone of psychoanalysis, was a key twentieth-century concept and retains an enormous influence on psychological and cultural theory. Yet there is a surprising lack of investigation into its roots in the critical philosophy and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century, long before Freud. Why did the unconscious emerge as such a powerful idea? And why at that point? This interdisciplinary study traces the emergence…
Night of the Unexpected
This essay attempts a critical analysis of the boom in 'uncanny' theory. As the 'uncanny' has carved its image in cultural, political, sociological and aesthetic theory, there has been little attempt to challenge the notion that all critical work is or should be uncanny. Introductions to the concept, such as those by Nicholas Royle and more recently Anna Masschelein, have tended to promote its ubiquity and irreducibility, even while acknowledging…
Psychoanalytic sociology and the traumas of history
This article examines the way aspects of recent history were excluded in key studies emerging from psychoanalytic social psychology of the mid-20th century. It draws on work by Erikson, Marcuse and Fromm, but focuses in particular on Alexander Mitscherlich. Mitscherlich, a social psychologist associated with the later Frankfurt School, was also the most important psychoanalytic figure in postwar Germany. This makes his work significant for tracin…
Real fantasies
Throwing the case open
For John Forrester, the ‘case’, particularly in its psychoanalytic version, makes possible a science of the particular – knowledge open to the differences of individuals and situations. This article takes up that aspect of Forrester’s account that linked the psychoanalytic case with forms of autobiography – new narrations of that particular self. After Freud, many authors – literary and psychoanalytic – have taken up the challenge of narrating su…
Setting Psychoanalytic Historiography on a New Footing
Sinopsychoanalysis
Reports from the last ten years on the 'discovery' of psychoanalysis in Chinawhether excited or sceptical, and whether counting the onset from the pre-Tiananmen 1980s era of 'Freud fever', or (more frequently) the 'explosion of professional and popular interests in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychology in China's major cities' since the early 2000s (Huang and Kirsner, 2020, p. 3)have been fraught with all the generic difficulties of conce…
Psychoanalysis for the People
In this introduction, the editors outline the aim of the Free Clinics special issue: that of articulating a new vocabulary in psychoanalysis, which can reflect its dimensions of critical and progressive discourse and practice, while tracing the little-known histories of free psychoanalytic clinics. Through this special issue, new questions become possible about what it means to socialise and collectivise the practices that inscribe the social voc…
Love Actually
Philosophy (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (3 works)