Jacques Lacan and The other side of psychoanalysis
Subtitle: reflections on Seminar XVII
By: edited by Justin Clemens and Russell Grigg.
Contributors: Clemens, Justin.; Grigg, Russell.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Lacan, Jacques, 1901-; Lacan, Jacques, 1901-; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis
Description: This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII, marked a turning point in Lacan's thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues. Collecting analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology is at once an introduction, critique, and extension of Lacan's influential ideas. The contributors examine Lacan's theory of the four discourses, his critique of the Oedipus complex and the superego, the role of primal affects in political life, and his prophetic grasp of twenty-first-century developments. They take up these issues in detail, illuminating the Lacanian concepts with discussions of shame and guilt, literature and intimacy, femininity, perversion, authority and revolt, and the discourse of marketing and political rhetoric. Topics of more specific psychoanalytic interest include the role of objet a, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the status of knowledge, and the relation between psychoanalytic practices and the modern university.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On shame / Jacques-Alain Miller; title: Enjoyment and impossibility : Lacan's revision of the Oedipus complex / Paul Verhaeghe; title: Beyond the Oedipus complex / Russell Grigg; title: The hysteric's truth / Ellie Ragland; title: Toward a new perversion : psychoanalysis / Dominiek Hoens; title: Objet A in social links / Slavoj Žižek; title: Hegel as the other side of psychoanalysis / Mladen Dolar; title: When surplus enjoyment meets surplus value / Alenka Zupancic; title: Enjoy your stay : structural change in Seminar XVII / Oliver Feltham; title: More thoughts for the times on war and death : the discourse of capitalism in Seminar XVII / Juliet Flower MacCannell; title: The impossible power of psychoanalysis / Dominique Hecq; title: Symptom and discourse / Éric Laurent; title: Common markets and segregation / Marie-Hélène Brousse; title: The intimate, the extimate, and psychoanalytic discourse / Pierre-Gilles Guéguen; title: Bureaucratic speech acts and the university discourse : Lacan's theory of modernity / Geoff Boucher; title: The "revolution" in advertising and university discourse / Matthew Sharpe.