Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity [electronic resource] /
Neill, C.author.
A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking. This book argues that a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our relation to law, tradition and morality, as well as our understanding of guilt, responsibility and desire.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lacan's return to Descartes -- The graph of desire -- Objet petit a and fantasy -- Guilt -- The law -- Judgement -- Misrecognising the other -- Loving thy neighbour -- Beyond difference -- Ethics and the other -- The impossibility of ethical examples -- Eating the book.
A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking. This book argues that a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our relation to law, tradition and morality, as well as our understanding of guilt, responsibility and desire.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Ethics.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Cognitive psychology.
Psychology.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Cognitive Psychology.
General Psychology.