Cogito and the Unconscious
Subtitle: sic 2 ([sic] Series)
Contributors: Alain Grosrichard (Contributor); Alenka Zupancic (Contributor); Marc De Kessel (Contributor); Miran Bozovic (Contributor); Mladen Dolar (Contributor); Renata Salecl (Contributor); Robert Pfaller (Contributor); Slavoj Zizek (Editor); Slavoj Zizek (Editor); Sina K. Najafi (Translator)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780822320975
Subjects: Cultural studies; Philosophy of mind; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Philosophy; Metaphysics; Psychology; Psychotherapy - General; Psychoanalysis and philosophy; Mind & Body; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Literary Studies/American Lite; Lacan, Jacques,; 1901-; 1901-1981
First sentence: In the opening paragraph of one of the earliest pieces in his Ecrits, the famous paper entitled "The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience" (1949, presented in Zurich at the International Congress of Psychoanalysis), Lacan situates his notion of the mirror stage in the following way: "The conception of the mirror stage that I introduced at our last congress, thirteen years ago [that was the congress in Marienbad in 1936, the last one where Freud was present as well], has since become more or less established in the practice of the French group.