Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis

by Bostjan Nedoh (Editor), Andreja Zevnik (Editor)

Overview

It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart.
This volume of 12 new essays breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective thoughts. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a ‘disjunctive synthesis’, which acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474432276
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Boštjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has published extensively on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Italian biopolitical theory and contemporary French philosophy.

Andreja Zevnik is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include theories of subjectivity, political violence and resistance, aesthetic politics, law and psychoanalysis. She is a member of editorial board for the Journal of Narrative Politics. She recently published Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics: re-thinking the ontology of the political subject (Routledge, 2016) and Jacques Lacan Between Psychoanalysis and Politics (Ed. with Andreja Zevnik; Routledge 2015).

Table of Contents

Introduction: On a Disjunctive Synthesis Between Deleuze and Lacan1. Peter Klepec, For an Another Deleuze-Lacan Encounter2. Laurent de Sutter, Reciprocal Portrait of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze3. Boštjan Nedoh, Does the Body without Organs Have Any Sex At All? Lacan and Deleuze on Perversion and Sexual Difference4. Scott Wilson, Gnomology: Deleuze’s Phobias and the Line of Flight between Speech and the Body5. Andreja Zevnik, Lacan, Deleuze and the Politics of the Face6. Tadej Troha, Denkwunderkeiten: On Deleuze, Schreber, and Freud7. Guillaume Collett, Snark, Jabberwock, Poord’jeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian School on the Names-of-the-Father8. Samo Tomšič, Baroque Structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan, and the Critique of Linguistics9. Lorenzo Chiesa, Exalted Obscenity and the Lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze, and the Baroque10. Alenka Zupančič, The Death Drive11. Adrian Johnston, Repetition and Difference: Žižek, Deleuze, and Lacanian Drives12. Paul M. Livingston, Lacan, Deleuze, and the Consequences of Formalism

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This book provides substantial, new and creative readings of one of the most significant debates of the 20th Century. The authors are to be commended for taking on the challenge to develop arguments that are of great interest for both theorists and historians of contemporary philosophy.

Davide Tarizzo

This book provides substantial, new and creative readings of one of the most significant debates of the 20th Century. The authors are to be commended for taking on the challenge to develop arguments that are of great interest for both theorists and historians of contemporary philosophy.

Editorial Reviews

This book provides substantial, new and creative readings of one of the most significant debates of the 20th Century. The authors are to be commended for taking on the challenge to develop arguments that are of great interest for both theorists and historians of contemporary philosophy.

Davide Tarizzo