Lacan and Deleuze : a disjunctive synthesis / edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nedoh, Boštjan, editor.

Zevnik, Andreja, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

A reconfiguration of the reception of Deleuze and Lacan in contemporary Continental philosophy.<p>It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart. </p><p>This volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective thoughts. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a 'disjunctive synthesis' which acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading.</p>

Contents:

For another Lacan-Deleuze encounter / Peter Klepec

Reciprocal portrait of Jacques Lacan in Gilles Deleuze / Laurent de Sutter

Does the body without organs have any sex at all? Lacan and Deleuze on perversion and sexual difference / Boštjan Nedoh

Gnomonology: Deleuze's phobias and the line of flight between speech and the body / Scott Wilson

Lacan, Deleuze and the politics of the face / Andreja Zevnik

Denkwunderkeiten: on Deleuze, Schreber and Freud / Tadej Troha

Snark, Jabberwock, Poordʼjeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian school on the names-of-the-father / Guillaume Collett

Baroque structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan and the critique of linguistics / Samo Toms̆ic̆

Exalted obscenity and the lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze and the baroque / Lorenzo Chiesa

The death drive / Alenka Zupanc̆ic̆

Repetition and difference: Z̆iz̆ek, Deleuze and Lacanian drives / Adrian Johnston

Lacan, Deleuze and the consequences of formalism / Paul M. Livingston.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-0831-1

1-4744-0830-3