Cogito and the Unconscious - sic 2

Edited volume that discusses the relationship of philosophy and psychoanalysis.

List of contents

Introduction: Cogito as Shibboleth 1

Part I. Cogito as a Freudian Concept

1. Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious / Mladen Dolar 11

2. The Subject of the Law / Alenka Zupan¿i¿ 41

3. Four Discourses, Four Subjects / Slavoj Žižek 74

Part II. Cogito's Body

4. The Case of Polyphemus, or, a Monster and Its Mother / Alain Grosrichard 117

5. Malebranche's Occasionalism, or, Philosophy in the Garden of Eden / Miran Božovi¿ 149

6. The Silence of the Feminine Jouissance / Renata Salecl 175

Part III.

7. A Sovereign's Anatomy: The Antique in Bataille's Modernity and Its Impact on His Political Thought / Marc de Kessel 199

8. Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology? / Robert Pfaller 225

9. The Cartesian Subject versus the Cartesian Theater / Slavoj Žižek 247

Notes on Contributors 275

Index 277

About the author

Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a coeditor of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects and author of Tarrying with the Negative, both published by Duke University Press.

Product details

• Assisted by: Slavoj Zizek (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.1998
• EAN: 9780822320975
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2097-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Series: [SIC] Series; [Sic]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works