The Still Arrow: Three Attempts to Annul Time (The Italian List) - Hardcover

Fachinelli, Elvio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857428519 ISBN 13: 9780857428516

Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Elvio Fachinelli (1928–1989) was a leading Italian psychoanalyst whose clinical, theoretical, and activist work resonated well beyond his discipline. In The Still Arrow, Fachinelli launches an interdisciplinary investigation ranging from anthropology to politics, and from the history of religions to the critique of ideology. 

Originally published in 1979, this book displays Fachinelli’s eclectic methodology. The Still Arrow goes against Freud’s attempt in Totem and Taboo to equate individual psycho-libidinal predicaments with those of whole societies. Yet, it argues that the difference between the two always remains one of degree, not of principle. The vexing problem of their relation is approached through an interrogation of time. From a psychoanalytic standpoint, individual obsessional neurosis is firmly connected to a repudiation of death. But, Fachinelli argues, comparable temporal strategies are also present at the group level, in disparate social and historical contexts, for instance, in the archaic transformation of the dead into ancestors and in what he names 'the fascist phenomenon'.

From this perspective, history is not just the sum of all possible histories but also of impossible ones. Fachinelli delineates an innovative knowledge of time which brings together apparently distant events into a characteristic series. This first English translation of a book by Fachinelli, The Still Arrow introduces a major critical European voice to the larger readership.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Elvio Fachinelli (1928-1989) was a leading Italian psychoanalyst. He published several books and was extremely active as a social and political commentator.


Lorenzo Chiesa is lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University and professor at the European Graduate School.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857428519
• ISBN 13: 9780857428516
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 125
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