Lacan and Deleuze : a disjunctive synthesis / edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nedoh, Boštjan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Reconfiguring the reception of Lacan and Deleuze in contemporary Continental philosophy, It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart. This volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective works. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a 'disjunctive synthesis', acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 For Another Lacan-Deleuze Encounter / Peter Klepec Klepec, Peter 13

2 Reciprocal Portrait of Jacques Lacan in Gilles Deleuze / Laurent de Sutter Sutter, Laurent de 32

3 Does the Body without Organs Have Any Sex at All? Lacan and Deleuze on Perversion and Sexual Difference / Boštjan Nedoh Nedoh, Boštjan 44

4 Gnomonology: Deleuze's Phobias and the Line of Flight between Speech and the Body / Scott Wilson Wilson, Scott 56

5 Lacan, Deleuze and the Politics of the Face / Andreja Zevnik Zevnik, Andreja 74

6 Denkwunderketien: On Deleuze, Schreber and Freud / Tadej Troha Troha, Tadej 93

7 Snark, Jabberwock, Poord'jeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian School on the Names-of-the-Father / Guillaume Collett Collett, Guillaume 105

8 Baroque Structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan and the Critique of Linguistics / Samo Tomšic Tomšic, Samo 123

9 Exalted Obscenity and the Lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze and the Baroque / Lorenzo Chiesa Chiesa, Lorenzo 141

10 The Death Drive / Alenka Zupancic Zupancic, Alenka 163

11 Repetition and Difference: Zizek, Deleuze and Lacanian Drives / Adrian Johnston Johnston, Adrian 180

12 Lacan, Deleuze and the Consequences of Formalism / Paul M. Livingston Livingston, Paul M. 203.

ISBN:

9781474408295

147440829X

OCLC:

965534691