No Lost Certainties To Be Recovered: Sexuality, Creativity, Knowledge

by Gregorio Kohon

This book looks beyond both theory and practice to the politics and cultural resonances of psychoanalysis–in the torments and anxiety of artistic endeavour, and in the urgent and wearying sense of the blindness of our troubled history and politics, in Israel and in South America.

222 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Paul Johnston · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting collection of essays, but it is a collection of essays rather than a book, which is a pity since it would be interesting to get a more sustained account of Kohon's views on psychoanalysis. He is interestingly electic - a Lacan-influenced Freudian who seems equally familiar with psychoanalysis inside and outside England. I loved the title of the book which reflects Kohon's interest in the power of words and it seems to capture rather well his central message. It is the sort of thing you hear once and never forget (and no doubt it will resonate differently at differently times).