I currently practice and teach psychoanalysis. My particular interest is the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis. I am currently writing about psychoanalytic conceptions of change in the light of the role the idea of change has played in the history of Western philosophy. I was trained in classics and continental phenomenology before becoming an analyst. The premise of my current work is that psychoanalysis has an inadequate, i.e. narrow understanding of change. The conceptual resources I draw upon include the works of Heidegger, Aristotle and Plato. I am particularly interested in the example of Socrates for understanding the transference -a point of interest to both Jacques Lacan and Jonathan Lear. Most broadly, I want to recontextualize psychonalysis by reframing it in the light of the Humanities.
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Jessica Olivia Chua
