Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real' [electronic resource] /
Eyers, T.author.
This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Approaching the Real; Methodological reflections; Lacan studies today; Chapter outline; 1 The Imaginary and the Real; Introduction; The 'Mirror Stage'; The image of the other; Ego-ideal; From 'ideal-ego' i(a) to objet petit a; 2 The Real and the Symbolic; Introduction; Language and psychosis; Schreber and the Symbolic; Freud's navel; Lacan's letter; Unary trait; 3 Space and the Real; Introduction; Boundary/limit; A real topology?; Imaginary space; Symbolic space; The Real as absent cause; Objet petit a between boundary and limit
Sexuation and space4 The Real and Psychopathology; Introduction; Hysteria and the Real; Hysteria and the signifier-in-relation; Perversion, the drive and the Real; Perversion and the signifier-in-isolation; Obsessional neurosis and the logic of the signifier; 5 Lacanian Materialism?; Introduction; Materialism/materiality; The Real body; The body and the object; The body in fragments; Badiou and the Real; A Real writing?; The sinthome; Beckett and the sinthome; Conclusion: Philosophical Psychoanalysis?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Psychoanalysis.
Philosophy.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
Philosophy of mind.
Psychoanalysis.
History of Philosophy.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.
Philosophy of Mind.