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The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
Jacques Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at a time when it faced certain intellectual decline. Focusing on key terms in Lacan's often difficult, idiosyncratic development of psychoanalysis, this volume brings new perspectives to the work of an intimidating influential thinker.
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The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
Jacques Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at a time when it faced certain intellectual decline. Focusing on key terms in Lacan's often difficult, idiosyncratic development of psychoanalysis, this volume brings new perspectives to the work of an intimidating influential thinker.
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The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

by Jean-Michel Rabaté (Editor)
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

by Jean-Michel Rabaté (Editor)

Overview

Jacques Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at a time when it faced certain intellectual decline. Focusing on key terms in Lacan's often difficult, idiosyncratic development of psychoanalysis, this volume brings new perspectives to the work of an intimidating influential thinker.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521807449
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/31/2003
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent books are Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, and The Future of Theory.

Table of Contents

Chronology; 1. Lacan's turns to Freud Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. The mirror-stage: an obliterated archive Elisabeth Roudinesco; 3. Lacan's myths Darian Leader; 4. Lacan's science of the subject: between linguistics and topology Danny Nobus; 5. From the letter to the matheme: Lacan's scientific models Bernard Burgoyne; 6. The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis Colette Soler; 7. Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan Nestor Braunstein; 8. Lacan and philosophy Charles Shepherdson; 9. Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Zizek to Althusser) Joe Valente; 10. Ethics and tragedy in Lacan Alenka Zupancic; 11. A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion Judith Feher-Gurewich; 12. What is a Lacanian clinic? Diana Rabinovitch; 13. Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism Deborah Luepnitz; 14. Lacan and queer theory Tim Dean; 15. Lacan's afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol Catherine Liu; Further Reading.
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