Lacan At The Scene

Author : Henry Bond
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262300094

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Lacan at the Scene by Henry Bond Pdf

A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation. What if Jacques Lacan—the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst—had worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled with Lacan's theory of psychoanalysis than with elaborate, technologically advanced forensic tools. Bond's exposition on murder expands and develops a resolutely Žižekian approach. Seeking out radical and unexpected readings, Bond unpacks his material utilizing Lacan's neurosis-psychosis-perversion grid. Bond places Lacan at the crime scene and builds his argument through a series of archival crime scene photographs from the 1950s—the period when Lacan was developing his influential theories. It is not the horror of the ravished and mutilated corpses that draws his attention; instead, he interrogates seemingly minor details from the everyday, isolating and rephotographing what at first seems insignificant: a single high heeled shoe on a kitchen table, for example, or carefully folded clothes placed over a chair. From these mundane details he carefully builds a robust and comprehensive manual for Lacanian crime investigation that can stand beside the FBI's standard-issue Crime Classification Manual.

Author : Meera Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031062384

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Lacan’s Cruelty by Meera Lee Pdf

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty—a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world. Instead of reducing the notion of perversion to cultural representations, a historical discourse or a clinical diagnosis, the authors in this collection draw on Freud, Kant, Hegel, Marquis de Sade, Derrida, Deleuze and Žižek to untie the knot of “psychic cruelty” intrinsic to perversion and therefore “de-sexualize” perverted acts. They do so by theorizing perversion in psychoanalytic concepts of the Oedipus complex, the-Name-of-the-Father and jouissance, and furthermore in the perspective of the clinics of neurosis and psychosis, in dialogue with a clinical praxis, philosophy and literature.

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy,Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438414102

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The Title of the Letter by Jean-Luc Nancy,Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Pdf

This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for the particular light it casts on Lacan's complex relation to linguistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. It clarifies the way Lacan renews or transforms the psychoanalytic field, through his diversion of Saussure's theory of the sign, his radicalization of Freud's fundamental concepts, and his subversion of dominant philosophical values. The authors argue, however, that Lacan's discourse is marked by a deep ambiguity: while he invents a new "language," he nonetheless maintains the traditional metaphysical motifs of systemacity, foundation, and truth.

Author : James M. Mellard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025206173X

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Using Lacan, Reading Fiction by James M. Mellard Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1854 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317908906

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Routledge Library Editions: Lacan by Various Pdf

A major influence on French intellectuals in the twentieth century, Jacques Lacan has been referred to as ‘the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud’. Routledge Library Editions: Lacan offers a selection of titles, which examine the influence of Lacan’s theories in a number of disciplines and includes an annotated bibliography of his works. It brings together as a set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1983 and 1991.

Author : Ned Lukacher
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0801494869

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Primal Scenes by Ned Lukacher Pdf

Primal Scenes is concerned with those elements in the thought of Freud and Heidegger which make us continue to regard them as our contemporaries. It seeks to reassert their radical potential, which, the author believes, has been minimized as as critics celebrate the radicality of Lacan, Derrida, and others.

Author : Juliet Flower MacCannell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317916000

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Figuring Lacan (RLE: Lacan) by Juliet Flower MacCannell Pdf

It could be argued that the influence of Lacan on modern literary studies has been greater than anyone’s. Lacan has historicised the universal or mythic perceptions of Freud, and thus lent a new status to literature as a cultural artefact. This book, originally published in 1986, aims to delineate the trends in the uses made of Lacan today; to examine the theoretical substructure by which his work is accommodated to literature; and to analyse the way in which his work ‘models’ the formal relation of the literary text to other texts, to history and to politics.

Author : Sheldon George,Derek Hook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000407549

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Lacan and Race by Sheldon George,Derek Hook Pdf

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought. Featuring contributions by Lacanian scholars from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts, chapters span a wide breadth of topics, including white nationalism and contemporary debates over confederate monuments; emergent theories of race rooted in Afropessimism and postcolonialism; analyses of racism in apartheid and American slavery; clinical reflections on Latinx and other racialized patients; and applications of Lacan’s concepts of the lamella, drive and sexuation to processes of racialization. The collection both reorients readers’ understandings of race through its deployment of Lacanian theory and redefines the Lacanian subject through its theorizing of subjectivity in relation to race, racism and racial identification. Lacan and Race will be a definitive text for psychoanalytic theorists and contemporary scholars of race, appealing to readers across the fields of psychology, cultural studies, humanities, politics, and sociology.

Author : Patricia Gherovici,Manya Steinkoler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107086173

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Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy by Patricia Gherovici,Manya Steinkoler Pdf

Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing together clinic, theory, and scholarship this compilation of essays offers an original mix with powerful interpretive implications.

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501705403

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The Self and Its Pleasures by Carolyn J. Dean Pdf

Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. The Self and Its Pleasures offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.

Author : Santanu Biswas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040104873

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The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan by Santanu Biswas Pdf

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan’s interest in literary topics. Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which Lacan spoke on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The Purloined Letter", Hamlet, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Paul Claudel’s The Coûfontaine Trilogy, and where literature is related to meaning. This is followed by an exploration of Lacan’s seminar on "Lituraterre" in 1971, wherein Lacan elaborates on the different ways in which literature appeared to turn towards lituraterre. Finally, Biswas considers Lacan’s 1975–1976 seminar on James Joyce, who created literature out of “litter” and was concerned with jouissance rather than with meaning. The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan will be of great interest to Lacanian psychoanalysts, other mental health practitioners interested in the teachings of Lacan, and academics and students of Lacanian studies, literature, and psychoanalysis.

Author : Daniela Garofalo,David Sigler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438473475

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Lacan and Romanticism by Daniela Garofalo,David Sigler Pdf

Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and Jane Austen, as well as lesser-known writers such as the graveyard poets and Sarah Scott. The contributors develop innovative approaches to Lacanian literary studies, focusing on neglected or emergent areas of Lacan's thought and approaching Lacan's best-known work in unexpected ways. The essay topics include the visible and seeable, war, the death drive, nonhuman sexualities, sublimation, loss and mourning, utopia, capitalism, fantasy, and topology, and they range from the mid-eighteenth through the early decades of the nineteenth centuries. The book reveals new ways of thinking about art and literature with psychoanalytic theory and suggests how theoretical approaches can contribute meaningfully to literary studies in general.

Author : Shoshana Felman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0674471210

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Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight by Shoshana Felman Pdf

Felman analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's singular way of making Freud's thought new again, Felman shows how this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary thinking and has redefined insight as such.

Author : Joseph P. Natoli
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252060490

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Literary Theory's Future(s) by Joseph P. Natoli Pdf

Author : Antonio Quinet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429901300

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Lacan's Clinical Technique by Antonio Quinet Pdf

How do psychoanalysts act during analysis? When does treatment start? How long does a session or treatment last? How much does it cost? What does analytical interpretation entail? What is the final aim of analysis? These are the main issues Antonio Quinet addresses for clinical psychoanalysts and students in training. This is not a do-it-yourself book or a step-by-step manual, but rather an examination of Freudian and Lacanian techniques based on psychoanalytical theory and ethics. The ideas examined are grounded in the structure of subjectivity, and the basic assumption that analysts have taken their own analysis to the end. It is from thereon that the will have the analyst's desire as a practicla tool for their own clinical practice. Antonio Quinet's contribution regarding the start of treatment comes from his updated examination of Freudian concepts through Lacanian mathemes. This approach has made this book's first version a best seller in Brazil, with over 30,000 copies sold.