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Book in Focus
A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye
In this week’s Book in Focus, we’re joined by Robert Beshara to discuss his recent publication, A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love.
This theoretical biography of Ye includes a foreword from Tommy Curry from the University of Edinburgh, and focuses particularly on 2016 through 2021.
The book takes what Ye says seriously, as opposed to dismissing him through the use of stigmatizing terms.
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The author specifically aligned his desire with Donda’s in an attempt to see him from her point of view – that is, through the legacy of unconditional love.
Dr Beshara, what was the motivation behind this title?
In the book, I draw in particular on concepts from Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis to interpret the complex subjectivity of Ye, particularly his struggle with manic depression. I begin my analysis in 2016 because that is when he had a nervous breakdown in public during the St.
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