The decision of desire / Silvia Lippi ; translated by Peter Skafish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lippi, Silvia, author.

Contributor:

Skafish, Peter, translator.

Series:

Univocal book

A Univocal book

Standardized Title:

Décision du désir. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Desire.

Physical Description:

xvii, 215 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Decision of Desire is a thorough and highly inventive interpretation of the whole of Lacan's work, with an emphasis on the "late Lacan" of the 1970s, with respect to the broad question of what exactly psychoanalysts mean when they speak of desire"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Desire-Between Alterity and Decision

Finite Desire, Infinite Desire

Desire, Squeezed Between Signifiers

Perverse and Perverted Desire

Gap, Distance, and Lack in Desire

The Painful Dialectic of the Object

The Object Slips Off, A Signifier Takes Its Place

That Singular Cause of Desire

"Oneself" as Object of Desire, and Love

Desire and Beyond Desire

Conatus and/or the Death Drive

The Laws of Desire

Enjoyment All and Not-all

From Double Alienation to Joy

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Lippi, Silvia, The decision of desire

ISBN:

9781517905293

151790529X

OCLC:

1112787437