Lacan and Cassirer

An Essay on Symbolisation
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37342-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 321, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy and Psychology

The Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the theories of both philosophers merit a description in their own unique idioms, as well as having their respective basic tenets compared. It will be argued that, rather surprisingly, these tenets turn out be complementary - actually correcting each other – based on their shared notion of man as an animal symbolicum. Its fruitfulness will be substantiated for a limited number of topics within the humanities: perception, language, politics and ethics, and mental disorder, all to be considered from this perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mooij, Antoine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 An Outline of the Human Condition

1.1 Three Levels of the Human Condition: From Intentionality to Structure

1.2 Three Types of Hermeneutics: From Signification to Signifier

1.3 Three Levels of the Human Condition Revisited

1.4 Application in Psychopathology

1.5An Inquiry into Possibility: The Capacity to Symbolise

2 Cassirer

2.1 A Return to Kant

2.2 Cassirer’s Ambition

2.3 Cassirer and Heidegger

2.4 The Mind and Critical Idealism

2.5 The Concept of a Symbolic Form

2.6 Myth and Religion, Language, Science

2.7 Symbolisation: Three Sources and Three Modes

2.8 A Symbolic Form in the Making?

3 Lacan

3.1 A Return to Freud

3.2 The Autonomy of the Symbolic Order

3.3 The Dialectics of Desire

3.4 Differential Character of the Language Sign

3.5 Symbolic Identification

3.6 The Real: Three Domains, Three Forms

3.7 The Later Lacan

3.8 Joyce and Lacan

3.9 Substance or Function

3.10 Lacan and Cassirer Juxtaposed

3.11 Lacan and Cassirer Put into a Mutual Relationship

4 Variations on the Theme of Symbolisation

4.1 The Human Condition and the Symbolic Function

4.2 The Medial Turn and Its Philosophy

4.3 Symbolisation in Perception

4.4 Homo Symbolicus: An Evolutionary Perspective

4.5 The Symbolic Order from A Normative Perspective: Politics, Law, Ethics

4.6 Shades of Symbolisation: The Psychic Disorder

4.7 One and the Same Theme?

Bibliography

Annex: Diagram of the Symbolising Process

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Antoine Mooij, Ph.D (1975), is Professor Emeritus of Law and Psychiatry, Utrecht University. He has published on Lacanian psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and hermeneutical psychiatry. Among his books are Intentionality, Desire, Responsibility. A Study in Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Law (Brill, 2010) and Psychiatry as a Human Science. Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives (Rodopi, 2012).