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John Hunt Publishing - Zizek in the clinic | eliot rosenstock

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• Psychotherapist Eliot Rosenstock proposes a philosophical foundation for mental health treatment based on the writings and ideas of Slavoj Zizek
• Zizek in the Clinic examines the state of the psychotherapy profession
• Capital motivated reductionist treatment modalities and a philosophy of liberation for the therapeutic subject
• With the acceleration of technological advancement reminiscent of the machine guns implementation in World War One
• The contemporary subject can be benefited by a working knowledge of their own psyche so as not to be pulled in the direction of anything that provides comfort and vague entertainment
• Zizek's analysis and application of Lacanian theory is a necessary component in the psychoanalytic fight for our own minds and our will to shape our own future in the deterritorialized hellscape of modern technocapital
• Civilization has never known discontents like the ones currently wrought
• This is not to say
• Civilization is more brutal than it has ever been
• Civilization is however