Johnston Irrepressible Truth

On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-57514-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 257 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Laca n. The Freudian Thing  is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing . The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Adrian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Returning to the Vienna of Freud.- 1. Situation in Time and Place of this Exercise.- 2. The Adversary.- 3. The Thing Speaks Itself.- 4. Parade.- 5. The Thing’s Order.- 6. Resistance to the Resisters.- 7. Interlude.- 8. The other’s Discourse.- 9. Imaginary Passion.- 10. Analytic Action.- 11. The Locus of Speech.- 12. Symbolic Debt.- 13. The Training of Analysts to Come.- Conclusion: Taking it to the Dogs.

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Johnston is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta, USA. His most recent book is Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers.