Lacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence - The Importance of Lacan As Irritant

This book explores the importance of Lacan's role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than becoming obsolescent

List of contents

Introduction. Irritations 1. Psychoanalysis as Irritant Translation 2. Freud's Irritations 3. Affects and their vicissitudes 4. Cruor, or the Cruel Fiction of Psychoanalysis 5. Irritating Kant with Sade, Irritating Sade with Kant 6. Lacan's Quarrel with Nancy and Posthumous Victory 7. "Perpetual Translation Made Language": Lacan's response to Deconstruction in "Lituraterre." Conclusion. "I am a poem, not a poet": Lacan's Autopoiesis

About the author

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania

Summary

This book explores the importance of Lacan’s role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than becoming obsolescent

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Michel Rabate, Jean-Michel Rabaté
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032715797
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271579-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Lacan, Freud, psychoanalysis