Library Talk | Negative Psychoanalysis | Leon Brenner and Julie Reshe

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.

[@JulieReshe]

Thank you for a great conversation, Leon

[@RahulSam]

Two of my favourite thinkers!

[@hakeem_]

I have watched a lot of Julies videos and talks which are always a breath of fresh air and I myself sometimes would "succumb" to the negative or becoming aware of being a living dead which makes anything other than this living as dead feel like a nice story to sooth ourselves and to cope with life. While I understand that she doesn't want to be "saved" or that she can't tolerate any relationship that doesn't revolve or acknowledge the negative, but I also think that holding this perspective kind of imply we want to be "saved" by talking about it or maybe forming relationships around this feeling which I understand as a reaction to positive psychology being mainstream and infiltrating every aspect of life. I should read her book to get her perspective better. Thank you both for an interesting conversation.

[@dfpromo1869]

Interesting conversation, I even wanted to read your book. Thank you

[@76Terrell]

I'd really recommend looking into the writing of the philosopher Erin Manning, a current Deleuzo-Guattarian scholar who has written on the relationship between depression and autism in her book 'The Minor Gesture' as part of a broader project "to nurture techniques of cognition in commitment to the singular ways neurodiverse difference expressess itself in the qualities of desire, knowledge, and creation it produces."

[@TheGinglymus]

I can't help but have a respect and almost feel slightly endeared to someone so relentlessly negative and contrarian 😂

[@sm7248]

Thanks for nothing

[@JulieReshe]

this negative smile seems familiar 🖤

[@sm7248]

@@JulieReshe ⚰

[@celestialteapot309]

Advaita Vedanta provides the bliss of eternal nothing

[@karlamsterdam983]

Die brille ist ne karikatur, aber steht ihr der sowjet look