Bücher von Matthew Gildersleeve

This short book provides a psychoanalytic defence of polyamory as well as highlighting the problems of monogamous relationships and how they cause conflict between an analysand and the Other. Gildersleeve shows that polyamory circumvents the impasses of monogamy and argues that the value of this relationship structure is undervalued because the issue has not been reflected on or thought out thoroughly. Gildersleeve methodically uses the polyamorous literature as well as Zizek¿s interpretation of Lacan and a Heideggerian interpretation of Jung to achieve these goals. His aim is to show a more productive and authentic relationship structure by unconcealing what is unconscious about monogamy and its alternative polyamory. By integrating polyamory and psychoanalysis, this book offers ¿new discursive possibilities for the development of polyamorous identities, relationships and emotions¿ and poses the Lacanian question ¿Have you acted in conformity with your desire?¿.

This book discusses the philosophy of place and the implications for understanding ourselves authentically. It sets out to investigate this by providing a review of the phenomenological and humanistic views of place as background reading for the chapters that follow. This contributed book offers unique chapters from international scholars on place in relation to individual philosophers such as Nietzsche, Sloterdijk, Foucault, as well as more broad areas of research including Ecology, Ontogenesis, Bioethics and Metaphysics. The book then presents an integration of the arguments of the contributing authors to give a better and fresh insight to the relationship between place and self. This fusion of chapters amplifies each to show how they all have an important contribution to an expanded understanding of place and self. This combination of topics as well as each author¿s view of place makes this book an important contribution to the literature. The book is intended for philosophers but would also be of interest to a general audience.