Deleuze and psychoanalysis : philosophical essays on Deleuze's debate with psychoanalysis / edited by Leen De Bolle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Bolle, Leen.

Series:

Figures of the Unconscious / Figures de l''Inconscient

Figures of the unconsciousness ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century''s most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. The abundant debates with and references to a variety of authors of many different domains; the sophisticated conceptual framework; the creation of new concepts and the injection of existing concepts with new meanings - all this makes his oeuvre difficult to grasp.This book can be seen as a

Contents:

Deleuze and Psychoanalysis; Table of Contents; Preface: Desire and Schizophrenia; Freud and repetition; Spinoza and desire; Oedipus versus the desiring machines; Schizophrenia; De-metaphorisation; The body without organs; Spinoza and the schizophrenic; Bibliography; You Can't Have it Both Ways: Deleuze or Lacan; 1. The first and most substantial difference concerns the limits of the field of enquiry; 2. This brings us to a second difference, concerning the status of subjectivity and intersubjectivity

3. Along with the other, the subject, and the intersubject, Deleuze refuses the process of representation4. Along with representation, Deleuze also rejects the primacy of signification and the symbolic; 5. Ultimately, there is no place in a Deleuzian universe for a psychoanalytic conception of the unconscious itself; Bibliography; Desire and the Dialectics of Love: Deleuze, Canguilhem, and the Philosophy of Desire; Deleuze and the Philosophy of Desire; Desire and its Object: Plato, Spinoza, and Augustine; Proust and the Proper Object of Sexual Desire

Leibniz, Locke and the Uneasiness of DesireHegel and the Negativity of Desire; Sartre and Desire as Lack; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Bibliography:; Anti-Oedipus: The Work of Resistance; Resisting Resistances; Producing Resistances; Resisting Ego/Ids; Antigone's Moral Claims; Bibliography; Literature as Symptomatology: Gilles Deleuze on Sacher-Masoch; Bibliography; Deleuze with Masoch; Bibliography; Deleuze's Passive Syntheses of Time and the Dissolved Self; 1. The passive synthesis as a transcendental field of the unconscious; 2. The first synthesis of time; 3. The second synthesis of time

4. The third synthesis5. Affirmation and creation; Bibliography; Epilogue; List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-6166-035-9

OCLC:

715171635