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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.
| Notes on the contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| List of abbreviations | ||
| Chronology of Lacan's life | ||
| 1 | Lacan's turn to Freud | 1 |
| 2 | The mirror stage: an obliterated archive | 25 |
| 3 | Lacan's myths | 35 |
| 4 | Lacan's science of the subject: between linguistics and topology | 50 |
| 5 | From the letter to the matheme: Lacan's scientific methods | 69 |
| 6 | The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis | 86 |
| 7 | Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan | 102 |
| 8 | Lacan and philosophy | 116 |
| 9 | Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Zizek to Althusser) | 153 |
| 10 | Ethics and tragedy in Lacan | 173 |
| 11 | A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion | 191 |
| 12 | What is a Lacanian clinic? | 208 |
| 13 | Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism | 221 |
| 14 | Lacan and queer theory | 238 |
| 15 | Lacan's afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol | 253 |
| Further reading | 272 | |
| Index | 282 |
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.