Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan

by Ellie Ragland

Overview

In Essays on the Pleasure of Death, Ellie Ragland discusses the interconnection of Freud and Lacan's theories, while maintaining that crucial differences between them still exist. Ragland argues, however, that Lacan's "return to Freud" gave coherence to concepts which Freud could never explain: psychosis, narcissism, the body and the death drive. Drawing upon Lacan's untranslated seminars through 1981, Ragland analyzes his theories of the death drive and the concept of jouissance, the driving force behind language and libido. Along with her examination of Lacanian theories about the body, meaning systems, and how they shape reality, Ragland also discusses the ethical problems of psychoanalysis and the ways in which Lacan's work points to the inadequacies of terms like "sexuality" and "gender."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136647970
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ellie Ragland

Table of Contents

Introduction Traduttore emendatore: The role of translation and interpretation in exegetical renewal; Chapter 1 Lacan’s Theories on Narcissism and the Ego; Chapter 2 “Foreclosure,” or the Origin of the Psychoses; Chapter 3 Lacan’s Concept of the Death Drive; Chapter 4 Causes of Illness and the Human Body; Chapter 5 Lacan and the Ethics of Desire; Chapter 6 The Paternal Metaphor;