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The singularity of being : Lacan and the immortal within / Mari Ruti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruti, Mari.
- Series:
- Psychoanalytic interventions.
- Psychoanalytic interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis.
- Self.
- Subjectivity.
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. Aimed at specialists and non-specialists alike, the book manages to educate at the same time as it intervenes in current debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, creativity, the self-other relationship, and much more.
- Contents:
- The singularity of being
- The rewriting of destiny
- The ethics of the act
- The possibility of the impossible
- The jouissance of the signifier
- The dignity of the thing
- The ethics of sublimation
- The sublimity of love
- Conclusion: the other as face.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-5363-5
- 0-8232-4318-4
- OCLC:
- 867784825
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