Jacques the Sophist Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassin, Barbara.

Contributor:

Syrotinski, Michael

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy’s negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry’s emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an essential part of our world’s cultural, political, and philosophical repertoire. In this dazzling book, Barbara Cassin, who has done more than anyone to reclaim a mode of thought that traditional philosophy disavows, shows how the sophistical tradition has survived in the work of psychoanalysis.In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth.This witty, brilliant tour de force celebrates how psychoanalysts have become our culture’s key dissidents and register, in Lacan’s words, “the presence of the sophist in our time.”

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: “How Kind of You to Recognize Me”

1. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves

2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time

3. Logos- Pharmakon

4. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan’s Anti- Aristotelianism

5. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan’s Ab- Aristotelianism

Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish

Acknowledgments

Translator’s Note: Performing Untranslatability

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780823285778

0823285774

OCLC:

1122932204