Lacan, language, and philosophy / Russell Grigg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grigg, Russell, 1951-

Series:

SUNY series, insinuations.

SUNY series, insinuations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Philosophy.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed by a background in analytic philosophy. He addresses key issues in Lacanian psychoanalysis, from the clinical (how psychosis results from the foreclosure of the signifier the Name-of-the Father; the father as a symbolic function; the place of transference) to the philosophical (the logic of the "pas-tout"; the link between the superego and Kant's categorical imperative; a critique of Žižek's account of radical change). Grigg's expertise and knowledge of psychoanalysis produce a major contribution to contemporary philosophical and psychoanalytic debates.

Contents:

Psychosis, neurosis and the name-of-the-father

Foreclosure

The father's function

Beyond the Oedipus complex

Signifier and object in the transference

Regulating psychoanalysis

Analyzing philosophers : Descartes, Kant, Žižek, Badiou, and Jakobson

Lacan and Badiou : logic of the pas-tout

Kant and Freud

Guilt, the law, and transgression

Absolute freedom and radical change : on Žižek

Descartes and the subject of science

Lacan and Jakobson : metaphor and metonymy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.

ISBN:

9780791478882

0791478882

9781435632134

1435632133

OCLC:

212084085