Lacan On Love

Author : Bruce Fink
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781509500512

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Lacan on Love by Bruce Fink Pdf

Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle. Can psychoanalysis – with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters – give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about “what love really is”? In this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can. Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions – from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism – and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan’s paradoxical claim that “love is giving what you don’t have.” He shows how the emptiness or lack we feel within ourselves gets covered over or entwined in love, and how it is possible and indeed vital to give something to another that we feel we ourselves don’t have. This first-ever commentary on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference, provides readers with a clear and systematic introduction to Lacan’s views on love. It will be of great value to students and scholars of psychology and of the humanities generally, and to analysts of all persuasions.

Author : Juan-David Nasio
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791485903

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Book of Love and Pain, The by Juan-David Nasio Pdf

Addresses the limits in treating pain psychoanalytically, and offers a phenomenological description of psychic pain, particularly the pain of a lost loved one.

Author : Yael Goldman Baldwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429915659

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Let's Keep Talking by Yael Goldman Baldwin Pdf

Let's Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacanian case studies of young people today as they struggle with their own modern existential dilemmas of sex and love, life and death. The context, background, and forms of expression may be contemporary, but the clients' problems, structures, and existential dilemmas are quite classic. The five narrative tales highlight the role a Lacanian orientation played in the interactions, formulations, and results, from initial meetings to terminations. Grounded in concrete clinical material, the case studies illuminate specific and universal themes of human suffering and how we can treat that suffering by speaking. Yael Baldwin argues that in our cultural milieu of "connective technologies", and the rise of biotechnology and psychopharmacology in particular, we are in need of mental health treatment methods that highlight talking and relationships as essential to our personhood, our suffering, and our healing and growth. Let's Keep Talking argues that now, more than ever, we need the endeavour of analytic talk therapy.

Author : Lauren Gail Berlant
Publisher : Dead Letter Office, BABEL Working Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0615686877

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Desire/Love by Lauren Gail Berlant Pdf

"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories - especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love. In this small theoretical novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love and desire in separate entries. In the first entry, Desire mainly describes the feeling one person has for something else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of attachment, and tells briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives. Whether viewed psychoanalytically, institutionally, or ideologically, love is deemed always an outcome of fantasy. Without fantasy, there would be no love. Desire/Love takes us on a tour of all of the things that sentence might mean.

Author : Suzanne Barnard,Bruce Fink
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791488263

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Reading Seminar XX by Suzanne Barnard,Bruce Fink Pdf

Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.

Author : Alain Badiou,Nicolas Truong
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781595588890

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In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou,Nicolas Truong Pdf

The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless

Author : Renata Salecl,Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082231813X

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Gaze and Voice as Love Objects by Renata Salecl,Slavoj Žižek Pdf

Book examines relationship between love, gaze and the sexes

Author : A. Gülerce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230373303

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Re(con)figuring Psychoanalysis by A. Gülerce Pdf

Leading international scholars present novel dialogues between different psychoanalytic orientations as well as between the particularities of diverse socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to offer critical insights which are highly relevant to the current intellectual debates and social praxis.

Author : Duane Rousselle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1777630207

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Real Love by Duane Rousselle Pdf

Real Love explores today's diverse, multiplicitous, and contradictory modalities of love through the prism of Lacanian psychoanalytic sociology.

Author : Jean Allouch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Love
ISBN : 0646476637

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Lacan/Love by Jean Allouch Pdf

Author : James Penney
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438439747

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The Structures of Love by James Penney Pdf

Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand—its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon. In The Structures of Love James Penney argues that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe and can sabotage our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. Penney suggests a method of cultural analysis that enables us to identity the transformative potential of genuine artistic and political acts. He stages a dialogue between Lacan's psychoanalysis and the philosophy of Alain Badiou; includes chapters on Frantz Fanon and Jean Genet, Chantal Akerman and Lucien Freud; and explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical consequences of the transference idea, pushing it into exciting new territory.

Author : Jacques Lacan
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 150952360X

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Transference by Jacques Lacan Pdf

"Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades's desire – ágalma, the good object. I would go even further. How can we analysts fail to recognize what is involved? He says quite clearly: Socrates has the good object in his stomach. Here Socrates is nothing but the envelope in which the object of desire is found. It is in order to clearly emphasize that he is nothing but this envelope that Alcibiades tries to show that Socrates is desire's serf in his relations with Alcibiades, that Socrates is enslaved to Alcibiades by his desire. Although Alcibiades was aware that Socrates desired him, he wanted to see Socrates's desire manifest itself in a sign, in order to know that the other – the object, ágalma – was at his mercy. Now, it is precisely because he failed in this undertaking that Alcibiades disgraces himself, and makes of his confession something that is so affectively laden. The daemon of Αἰδώς (Aidós), Shame, about which I spoke to you before in this context, is what intervenes here. This is what is violated here. The most shocking secret is unveiled before everyone; the ultimate mainspring of desire, which in love relations must always be more or less dissimulated, is revealed – its aim is the fall of the Other, A, into the other, a." Jacques Lacan

Author : Cindy Zeiher,Todd McGowan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786603241

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Can Philosophy Love? by Cindy Zeiher,Todd McGowan Pdf

This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian School of Philosophy, the book contends that psychoanalysis is the one line of thought that exposes the role that love plays in all knowledge, emphasising the importance of love in these unsettled times.

Author : Jacques Lacan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317761877

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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 by Jacques Lacan Pdf

In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts. During the seminar he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy, and the tragic dimension of analytical experience. One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.

Author : Frances L. Restuccia
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080475182X

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Amorous Acts by Frances L. Restuccia Pdf

Amorous Acts uses psychoanalytic concepts to show how queer theory is operating to put in place a non-heterosexist social order.