The weary sons of freud - Catherine Clment

The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for
its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters
pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and compelled
by fury, Catherine Clment contrasts the original, inspirational
psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of
their uninspired followers-the weary sons of Freud.

The analyst's
once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of
therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism,
brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill
the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of
psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and
feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like.