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The Lacanian Subject

Bruce Fink
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Author : Bruce Fink
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 239 pages
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Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400885671

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This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once reigned, subjectify the alien roll of the dice at the beginning of our universe, and make our own knotted web of our parents' desires that led them to bring us into this world. Lucidly guiding readers through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory--unpacking such central notions as the Other, object a, the unconscious as structures like a language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance, and sexual difference--Fink demonstrates in-depth knowledge of Lacan's theoretical and clinical work. Indeed, this is the first book to appear in English that displays a firm grasp of both theory and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author being one of the only Americans to have undergone full training with Lacan's school in Paris. Fink Leads the reader step by step into Lacan's conceptual system to explain how one comes to be a subject--leading to psychosis. Presenting Lacan's theory in the context of his clinical preoccupations, Fink provides the most balanced, sophisticated, and penetrating view of Lacan's work to date--invaluable to the initiated and the uninitiated alike.

Lacan and the Subject of Language (RLE: Lacan)

Ellie Ragland-Sullivan,Mark Bracher
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Author : Ellie Ragland-Sullivan,Mark Bracher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317915911

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Lacan and the Subject of Language (RLE: Lacan) by Ellie Ragland-Sullivan,Mark Bracher Pdf

Originally published in 1991, this volume tackles the diverse teachings of the great psychoanalyst and theoretician. Written by some of the leading American and European Lacanian scholars and practitioners, the essays attempt to come to terms with his complex relation to the culture of contemporary psychoanalysis. The volume presents useful insights into Lacan’s innovative theories on the nature of language and the subject. Many of the essays probe the importance of psychoanalysis for problems of signifier and referent in the philosophy of language; others explore the difficulties men and women have in negotiating the sexual differences that divide them. A major contribution to the new reception of Jacques Lacan in the English-speaking world, Lacan and the Subject of Language will challenge those who believe that they have already ‘mastered’ Lacanian thought. The insights offered here will pave the way for further developments.

Against Adaptation

Philippe Van Haute
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Author : Philippe Van Haute
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590516201

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"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement." -William Richardson

The Autistic Subject

Leon S. Brenner
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Author : Leon S. Brenner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030507152

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The Autistic Subject by Leon S. Brenner Pdf

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one’s identity and basic practices of existence, offering a rigorous alternative to treating autism as a mental or physical disorder. Drawing on Freud and Lacan’s psychoanalytic understanding of the subject, Brenner outlines the unique features of the autistic subjective structure and provides a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary work on the psychoanalysis of autism. The book examines research by theorists including Jean-Claude Maleval, Éric Laurent, Rosine and Robert Lefort that has been largely unavailable to Anglophone audiences until now. In this book autism is posited to be a singular subjective structure not reducible to neurosis or psychosis. In accordance with the Lacanian approach, autism is examined with detailed attention to the subject’s use of language, culminating in Brenner’s “autistic linguistic spectrum.” A compelling read for students and scholars of psychoanalysis and autism researchers and clinicians.

Lacan to the Letter

Bruce Fink
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Author : Bruce Fink
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0816643202

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To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be reconstructed through a line-by-line examination. And this is precisely what Bruce Fink does in this ambitious book, a fine analysis of Lacan's work on language and psychoanalytic treatment conducted on the basis of a very close reading of texts in his Icrits: A Selection. As a translator and renowned proponent of Lacan's works, Fink is an especially adept and congenial guide through the complexities of Lacanian literature and concepts. He devotes considerable space to notions that have been particularly prone to misunderstanding, notions such as "the sliding of the signified under the signifier,"or that have gone seemingly unnoticed, such as "the ego is the metonymy of desire." Fink also pays special attention to psychoanalytic concepts, like affect, that Lacan is sometimes thought to neglect, and to controversial concepts, like the phallus. From a parsing of Lacan's claim that "commenting on a text is like doing an analysis," to sustained readings of "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious," "The Direction of the Treatment," and "Subversion of the Subject" (with particular attention given to the workings of the Graph of Desire), Fink's book is a work of unmatched subtlety, depth, and detail, providing a valuable new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most important thinkers. Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and professor of psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of A Clinical Introduction to LacanianPsychoanalysis (1997) and The Lacanian Subject (1995). He has coedited three volumes on Lacan's seminars and is the translator of Lacan's Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge (1998), Icrits: A Selection (2002), and Icrits: The Complete Text (forthcoming).

The Lacanian Left

Yannis Stavrakakis
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Author : Yannis Stavrakakis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791473295

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Innovative exploration of the relationship of Lacanian psychoanalysis to political and democratic theory.

The Self and Its Pleasures

Carolyn J. Dean
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Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501705403

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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.

Writing the Structures of the Subject

Will Greenshields
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Author : Will Greenshields
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319475332

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This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan’s theories, as well as readings of texts that have been largely ignored, it provides a thorough critical interpretation of his work. Will Greenshields argues that Lacan achieved his most pedagogically clear and successful presentations of his most essential and notoriously complex concepts – such as structure, the subject and the real – through the deployment of topology. The book will help readers to better understand Lacan, and also those concepts that have become prevalent in various intellectual discourses such as contemporary continental philosophy, politics and the study of ideology, and literary or cultural criticism.

The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective

S. Vanheule
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Author : S. Vanheule
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230355873

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The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective by S. Vanheule Pdf

This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis. Presenting a close reading of original texts, Stijn Vanheule proposes that Lacan's work on psychosis can best be framed in terms of four broad periods.

Perversion

Stephanie S. Swales
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Author : Stephanie S. Swales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136329968

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Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not the fact of habitually engaging in specific "abnormal" or transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural position in relation to the Other. Perversion is one of Lacan's three main ontological diagnostic structures, structures that indicate fundamentally different ways of solving the problems of alienation, separation from the primary caregiver, and castration, or having limits set by the law on one's jouissance. The perverse subject has undergone alienation but disavowed castration, suffering from excessive jouissance and a core belief that the law and social norms are fraudulent at worst and weak at best. In Perversion, Stephanie Swales provides a close reading (a qualitative hermeneutic reading) of what Lacan said about perversion and its substructures (i.e., fetishism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sadism, and masochism). Lacanian theory is carefully explained in accessible language, and perversion is elucidated in terms of its etiology, characteristics, symptoms, and fundamental fantasy. Referring to sex offenders as a sample, she offers clinicians a guide to making differential diagnoses between psychotic, neurotic, and perverse patients, and provides a treatment model for working with perversion versus neurosis. Two detailed qualitative clinical case studies are presented—one of a neurotic sex offender and the other of a perverse sex offender—highlighting crucial differences in the transference relation and subsequent treatment recommendations for both forensic and private practice contexts. Perversion offers a fresh psychoanalytic approach to the subject and will be of great interest to scholars and clinicians in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychology, forensic science, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Signifiers and Acts

Ed Pluth
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Author : Ed Pluth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791479377

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Situates Lacan’s theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.

A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Bruce Fink
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Author : Bruce Fink
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674979925

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Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, which therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change.

After Lacan

Willy Apollon,Danielle Bergeron,Lucie Cantin
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Author : Willy Apollon,Danielle Bergeron,Lucie Cantin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791488058

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The authors use examples from their own clinical practice to explain the development of Lacanian theory.

Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Ian Parker
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Author : Ian Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136916472

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Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and explores its place within historical, social and political contexts. The book argues that Lacan’s elaboration of psychoanalytic theory is grounded in clinical practice and needs to be defined in relation to the four main traditions: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and spirituality. As such topics of discussion include: the intersection between psychoanalysis and social transformation a new way through deadlocks of current Lacanian debate a new approach to ‘clinical structures’ of neurosis, perversion and psychosis Lacanian Psychoanalysis draws on Lacan's work to shed light on issues relevant to current therapeutic practice and as such it will be of great interest to students, trainees and practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling and other domains of personal and social change.

Jacques Lacan

Jean-Michel Rabaté
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Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137060709

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Jacques Lacan by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought. Rabate offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan's theory of literature, reconstructing a doctrine based upon Freudian insights, and revitalised through close readings of authors as diverse as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Genet, Duras and Joyce. Not simply an essay about Lacan's influences or style, this book shows how the emergence of key terms like the 'letter' and the 'symptom' would not have been possible without innovative readings of literary texts.