Lacan, Language, and Philosophy

Russell Grigg

Description

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed by a background in analytic philosophy. He addresses key issues in Lacanian psychoanalysis, from the clinical (how psychosis results from the foreclosure of the signifier the Name-of-the Father; the father as a symbolic function; the place of transference) to the philosophical (the logic of the "pas-tout"; the link between the superego and Kant's categorical imperative; a critique of Žižek's account of radical change). Grigg's expertise and knowledge of psychoanalysis produce a major contribution to contemporary philosophical and psychoanalytic debates.
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1  Psychosis, Neurosis, and the Name-of-the-Father

1. Foreclosure

2. The Father's Function

3. Beyond the Oedipus Complex

4. Signifier and Object in the Transference

5. Regulating Psychoanalysis

Part 2  Analyzing Philosophers: Descartes, Kant, Žižek, Badiou, and Jakobson

6. Lacan and Badiou: Logic of the Pas-Tout

7. Kant and Freud

8. Built, the Law, and Transgression

9. Absolute Freedom and Radical Change: On Žižek

10. Descartes and the Subject of Science

11. Lacan and Jakobson: Metaphor and Metonymy

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophy
• Literary theory

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780791478882
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Lacan, Language, and Philosophy

SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

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Lacan, Language, and Philosophy

Russell Grigg

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5

Contents

Psychosis, Neurosis, and the NameoftheFather Foreclosure The Father’s Function Beyond the Oedipus Complex Signifier and Object in the Transference Regulating Psychoanalysis

Part 2 Analyzing Philosophers: Descartes, Kant, ˇ Zizˇek, Badiou, and Jakobson Chapter 6 Lacan and Badiou: Logic of thePas-Tout Chapter 7 Kant and Freud Chapter 8 Guilt, the Law, and Transgression Chapter 9 Absolute Freedom and Radical Change: ˇ On Zizˇek Chapter 10 Descartes and the Subject of Science Chapter 11 Lacan and Jakobson: Metaphor and Metonymy

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Acknowledgments

Versions of the material contained in this book have been previously published as articles in various journals and books. Chapter 1 ap- peared inKey Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, edited by Dany Nobus (London: Rebus, 1998). An earlier version of Chapter 2 was published inThe Australian Journal of Psychotherapy5 (1986). Chapter 3 appeared inJacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis,edited by Justin Clemens and Russell Grigg (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006). An earlier version of Chapter 4 was published inLacan and the Subject of Language,edited by Ellie Ragland-Sullivan and Mark Bracher (New York: Routledge, 1991). Chapter 5 first appeared in print as a contri- bution to Jacques-Alain Miller,The Pathology of Democracy(London: Karnac, 2005). Chapter 6 was published in the Slovenian journal Filozofski Vestnik 26:2 (2005). Earlier versions of parts of Chapter 7 appeared inAfreudite: Portuguese Review of Pure and Applied Psycho- analysis(2005), 1 Analysis3 (1991), and the Belgian journalQuarto 43 (1991). Chapter 8 was originally published inCardozo Law Review24 (2003). An earlier version of Chapter 9 appeared inParagraph24 (2001). And Chapter 11 had its first iteration in French inOrnicar?35 (1986).

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