Lacan and the concept of the 'real' / Tom Eyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eyers, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Reality--Psychological aspects.

Reality.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Physical Description:

ix, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou deriving profound philosophical and political consequences from what is the most difficult of Lacan's ideas. This is the first book to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas in contemporary critical theory"--Publisher's description, back cover.

Contents:

Approaching the Real

The imaginary and the Real

The Real and the symbolic

Space and the Real

The Real and psychopathology

Lacanian materialism?

Philosophical psychoanalysis?

ISBN:

9781137026385

1137026383

OCLC:

792880343