Antigone, in her unbearable splendor : new essays on Jacques Lacan's The ethics of psychoanalysis / Charles Freeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeland, Charles, 1947-

Series:

Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)

SUNY series, Intersections : philosophy and critical theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Moral and ethical aspects.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981. Ethique de la psychanalyse, 1959-1960.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With its privileging of the unconscious, Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic thought would seem to be at odds with the goals and methods of philosophy. Lacan himself embraced the term "anti-philosophy" in characterizing his work, and yet his seminars undeniably evince rich engagement with the Western philosophical tradition. These essays explore how Lacan's work challenges and builds on this tradition of ethical and political thought, connecting his "ethics of psychoanalysis" to both the classical Greek tradition of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and to the Enlightenment tradition of Kant, Hegel, and de Sade. Charles Freeland shows how Lacan critically addressed some of the key ethical concerns of those traditions: the pursuit of truth and the ethical good, the ideals of self-knowledge and the care of the soul, and the relation of moral law to the tragic dimensions of death and desire. Rather than sustaining the characterization of Lacan's work as "anti-philosophical," these essays identify a resonance capable of enriching philosophy by opening it to wider and evermore challenging perspectives.

Contents:

Introductory remarks

Towards an ethics of psychoanalysis

Philosophy's preparation for death

The "truth about truth"

The knots of moral law and desire

Antigone, in her unbearable splendor

The desire for happiness and the promise of analysis: Aristotle and Lacan on the ethics of desire

To conclude/not to conclude.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781461930402

1461930405

9781438446509

1438446500

OCLC:

867740059