The Cambridge companion to Lacan / edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

Contents:

Lacan's turn to Freud / Jean-Michel Rabaté

Mirror stage : an obliterated archive / Elisabeth Roudinesco

Lacan's myths / Darian Leader

Lacan's science of the subject : between linguistics and topology / Dany Nobus

From the letter to the matheme : Lancan's scientific methods / Bernard Burgoyne

Paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis / Colette Soler

Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan / Néstor Braunstein

Lacan and philosophy / Charles Shepherdson.

Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Ẑiẑek to Althusser) / Joe Valente

Ethics and tragedy in Lacan / Alenka Zupanĉiĉ

Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion / Judith Feher-Gurewich

What is a Lacanian clinic? / Diana Rabinovich

Beyond the phallus : Lacan and feminism / Deborah Luepnitz

Lacan and queer theory / Tim Dean

Lacan's afterlife : Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol / Catherine Liu.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-281) and index.

ISBN:

1-139-81664-0

0-511-99872-4

1-280-16089-6

0-511-11986-0

0-511-06386-5

0-511-20293-8

0-511-30600-8

0-511-07232-5

OCLC:

57204725