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This book presents a reading of Nietzsche as a thinker of the suffered social histories of subjectivity.  It suggests that Nietzsche's concept of genealogy needs the concept of convalescence to be coherent. Genealogy is a form of reflection that traces the suffered scenes of which that reflection is symptomatic, whereas convalescence is the ordeal of reflection's coming to bear its limits within scenes of embodied suffering.  This theme is developed by appeals to Freud's notion of mourning and the object relations theories of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, which insist on the primacy of suffered relationality in the genesis of subjectivity.  Moreover, Adorno's notion of negative dialectics and its emphasis on the primacy of the object are suggested as an alternative context within which to read Nietzsche's writing, in contrast with dominant modes of criticism.  The discussion will appeal to anyone interested in Nietzsche, critical theory and the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Nietzsche and Suffered Social Histories: Genealogy and Convalescence

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Introduction

Errors, Lies and the Suffered Social Histories of Subjectivity

Scenes of Subjectivity: Nietzsche with Marx and Freud

Ricoeur, Kofman, Foucault

 

Chapter One: Convalescence, Mourning, and Sociality

Convalescence and Mourning

Zarathustra's Convalescence

Abstraction in Popular Readings of Nietzsche: Derrida and Deleuze

 

Chapter Two: Relationality, Trauma, and the Genealogy of the Subject

Relationality in the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality

Relationality in the Second Essay of On the Genealogy of Morality

Naturalism and Animistic Subjectivity: Common Approaches

Love and the Sociality of Unpayable Debt

Sociality, Masochism, and Dissociation: Section Seven

Socio-cultural Histories of the Bad Conscience and Its Inversion

 

Chapter Three: Nietzsche's Negative Dialectics: Ascetic Ideal and Status Quo

Reading Nietzsche in Light of Adorno's Philosophical Position

Relationality, Ascetic Ideal and Status Quo

 

Chapter Four: Working-through Perspectives in Nietzsche and Object Relations Psychoanalysis

Signs of Convalescence: Recurrence and Integrating Good and Evil

Klein and Nietzsche

Winnicott and Nietzsche

Integrating the Nonintegrable