Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called “the art of living.”
Mari Ruti Livres
Mari Ruti est Professeure émérite de théorie critique et d'études de genre et de sexualité. Elle est une universitaire interdisciplinaire travaillant à l'intersection de la théorie contemporaine, de la philosophie continentale, de la théorie psychanalytique, des études culturelles, de la théorie du trauma, de l'éthique posthumaniste, ainsi que des études de genre et de sexualité. Ruti explore les relations complexes entre ces domaines, offrant de nouvelles perspectives sur notre compréhension de l'expérience humaine. Son travail se caractérise par son approche interdisciplinaire et son engagement profond envers les questions contemporaines les plus pressantes.
The Summons of Love
- 180pages
- 7 heures de lecture
We are conditioned to think love's purpose is to heal wounds, make us happy, and give our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs, and love causes us to feel fractured, disenchanted, and full of existential turmoil, our suffering is compounded by the sense that love has failed us, or that we've failed to experience what so many others effortlessly enjoy.In this eloquently argued, psychologically-informed book, Mari Ruti portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon prompting us to access the depths of human existence. Love's ruptures are as important as its triumph.
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
- 312pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmatism and a trenchant critique of gender relations.
The Singularity of Being offers a Lacanian interpretation on what makes each of us a unique and irreplaceable creature. Focusing on the Lacanian real, it builds a theory of individual distinctiveness while also intervening in critical debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, the self-other relationship, and effective political and ethical action.