Lacan and Levi-Strauss, or, The return to Freud (1951-1957) / Marcos Zafiropoulos ; translated by John Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zafiropoulos, Markos.

Series:

CFAR

Standardized Title:

Lacan et Lévi-Strauss ou le retour á Freud. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st

Other Title:

Return to Freud

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's theories of the symbolic function, of the power of language, of the role of the father and even of the unconscious itself owe a major debt to Levi-Strauss.Lacan and Le

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Copyright; NOTE TO THE READER AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The transcendence of the imaginary by the symbolic or the mirror stage and the symbolic function; CHAPTER TWO: The subject receives from the Other his own message in an inverted form: An investigation; CHAPTER THREE: The name of the father, psychosis and phobia; CONCLUSION; POSTLUDE; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

"CFAR Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-91549-7

0-429-90126-7

0-429-47649-3

1-282-78007-7

9786612780073

1-84940-797-5

9780429476495

OCLC:

723944242