Lacan's medievalism / Erin Felicia Labbie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Labbie, Erin Felicia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Medievalism.

Desire.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the foundational premises of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical project was that the history of philosophy concealed the history of desire, and one of the goals of his work was to show how desire is central to philosophical thinking. In Lacan's Medievalism, Erin Felicia Labbie demonstrates how Lacan's theory of desire is bound to his reading of medieval texts. She not only alters the relationship between psychoanalysis and medieval studies, but also illuminates the ways that premodern and postmodern epochs and ideologies share a concern with the subject, the unconscious, and language, thu

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Unconscious Is Real; ONE: Singularity, Sovereignty, and the One; TWO: Duality, Ambivalence, and the Animality of Desire; THREE: Dialectics, Courtly Love, and the Trinity; FOUR: The Quadrangle, the Hard Sciences, and Nonclassical Thinking; FIVE: The Pentangle and the Resistant Knot; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-253) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9694-2

OCLC:

476120148