Book contents
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 The Pleasure of Thought
- Chapter 2 On the Emergence of Pleasurable Thinking
- Chapter 3 Thinking the Pleasures with Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 4 Thinking in Sociocultural Psychology
- Chapter 5 Thinking through the Psyche
- Chapter 6 The Pleasure of Thinking in Diverse Experiences
- Chapter 7 Trajectories of Pleasures in Thinking
- Chapter 8 Thinking Forward
- Notes
- References
- Index
Chapter 3 - Thinking the Pleasures with Psychoanalysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2023
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- The Pleasure of Thinking
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 The Pleasure of Thought
- Chapter 2 On the Emergence of Pleasurable Thinking
- Chapter 3 Thinking the Pleasures with Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 4 Thinking in Sociocultural Psychology
- Chapter 5 Thinking through the Psyche
- Chapter 6 The Pleasure of Thinking in Diverse Experiences
- Chapter 7 Trajectories of Pleasures in Thinking
- Chapter 8 Thinking Forward
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
How to theorise the pleasure of thinking? Psychoanalysis is the rare discipline of psychology that has accounted for the pleasure of thinking. Chapter 3 follows a historical presentation of psychoanalysis; it first presents how, when founding psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud theorised thinking and its pleasure, an experience he obviously himself had. The chapter then explores the two next generations of psychoanalysts. It thus focuses on two post-war authors, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott, who, in very contrasting ways, give us elements to further understand psychic activity and its pleasures. Finally, it examines the work of contemporary theoreticians who, building on Freud, Bion, and Winnicott, turn their interests to the modalities of thinking and, with it, allude also to pleasure (André Green), whether in sublimation (Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor), daydreaming (Thomas Ogden), or the pleasure of insights.
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- The Pleasure of Thinking , pp. 94 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023