In the first installment of IPU’s Library Talk in 2024, our host Dr. Leon S. Brenner talks to Dr. Julie Reshe about her book “Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive.” Reshe’s work sheds light on a perspective that stands in contrast to the optimistic undertones of mainstream psychology and therapeutic culture.
Dr. Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher, a practicing negative psychoanalyst, and a public intellectual. She currently holds the position of visiting professor at both University College Cork and University College Dublin.
Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin. He is a member of the APPI, LOB, and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) and Unconscious Berlin. His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called “The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language”, where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.
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Thank you for a great conversation, Leon
Thanks for nothing