Lacan in America / edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949-

Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

Series:

Lacanian clinical field

The Lacanian clinical field

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

xlii, 420 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2000]

Summary:

This compilation of essays brings together scholars from the Americas and France to demonstrate the vitality of Lacanian thought and its impact across disciplines. With papers on subjects ranging from mathematics and psychoanalysis to gay and lesbian studies, and featuring Patricia Gherovici, Paul Roazen, Joan Copjec, among others, Lacan in America vividly demonstrates the tension and debate that have characterized Lacans reception in America.This collection of lucid and nonpartisan essays is particularly welcome . . . it successfully takes the ideas and issues at the heart of Lacans work and legacy and reinspects them through the lens offered by their transportation across the Atlantic, illustrating what has happened to them in their translationand mistranslationinto and through American intellectual and cultural life.Daniel Gunn, Department of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris

Contents:

The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview / Judith Feher Gurewich

Construing Lacan / Jean-Michel Rabate

1. The Place of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in North American Psychology / Kareen Ror Malone

2. Lacan in America / Joseph H. Smith

3. What Is Wrong with French Psychoanalysis? Observations on Lacan's First Seminar / Paul Roazen

4. Please Read Lacan! / C. Edward Robins

5. New Resistances to Psychoanalysis / Gerard Pommier

6. Psychoanalysis: Resistible and Irresistible / Patricia Gherovici

7. Lacanian Reception / Catherine Liu

8. October's Lacan, or In the Beginning Was the Void / Steven Z. Levine

9. Lacan's New Gospel / Michael Tort

10. Construction, Interpretation, and Deconstruction in Contemporary Psychoanalysis / Nestor A. Braunstein

11. "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose": Wittgenstein, Plato, and the Role of Construction and Deconstruction in Psychoanalysis and Ethics / Erich D. Freiberger

12. On Lacan and Mathematics / Arkady Plotnitsky

13. The Body as Viewing Instrument, or the Strut of Vision / Joan Copjec

14. The Experience of the Outside: Foucault and Psychoanalysis / Christopher Lane

15. The Subject of Homosexuality: Butler's Elision / Frances L. Restuccia

16. The Philanthropy of Perversion / Judith Feher Gurewich

17. On Female Homosexuality: A Lacanian Perspective / Marcianne Blevis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

ISBN:

1892746638

OCLC:

43757528