The anti-Oedipus complex : Lacan, critical theory and postmodernism / Rob Weatherill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherill, Rob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Oedipus complex.

Psychoanalysis.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

xvi, 243 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

The Anti-Oedipus Complex" critically explores the post '68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud's paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry, schizoanalysis and radical politics, the complex antimonies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Levinas, Steiner, Zizek, Badiou, Derrida and Girard, as well as theologians, analysts, writers, musicians and film makers. In this book, Rob Weatherill, starting from the clinic, considers the end of hierarchies, the loss of the Other, new subjectivities, so-called 'creative destruction', the power of negative thinking, revolutionary action, divine violence and new forms of extreme control. The book raises the following questions: Does the engagement of the Radical Orthodoxy movement offer some hope? Or should we re-situate psychoanalysis within a 'genealogy of responsibility' (Patocka / Derrida) as it emerges out of the sacred demonic, via Plato and Christianity?

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

Wanted : the father dead or alive

The anti-Oedipeans

Becoming versus being

Even your dreams are police records

Zizek : silence and the real desert

The power of negative thinking : analysis against therapy

Translation and interpretation

New subjectives in the virtual world : implications for practice

From the greatest good to the Dunce's cap and revolutionary subjectivity

Materialism or magisterium

Afterword

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138692343

1138692344

9781138692350

1138692352

OCLC:

962442145