Jacques the Sophist
Subtitle: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780823285747
Description: "In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth"--