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A Social Ontology of Psychosis, Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes explores how to interpret and apply the concept of the signifier of the Name-of-the-Father in Lacanian theory, particularly in the context of working with psychosis.
List of contents
Part 1: The logical dissertation: the zero symbolic value of the Name-of-the-Father 1. Nought as a non-identical identity and the empty set {ø}: inferring the Thing 2. The inconsistency of the Language set and the divided subject 3. Negation and name: founders of the subject 4. Language, the zero-value signifier, and the signifier of the lack in the Other, S(¿) 5. Castration and the "extraction of object
a", the offshoots of the Oedipus complex
Part 2: A genealogy of The Father and the death of the Father: a quest through jouissance and Modernity 6. The patriarchy and monotheism: an "all"-mighty God 7. God of vengeance and jouissance: a God that is "not-all" 8. Is Modernity a precursor of psychosis? 9. From the conjugal family to the NotF: a look at a misguided conception of the family 10. Depicting the Father in Modernity and Postmodernity: the theatre of Claudel and the cinema of the Coen brothers
Part 3: A socio-ontological appraisal of psychosis 11. Declarations and discourse, or the intervention of Language in the founding of eventfulness and the subject-position 12. The outside-discourse of psychosis: a bet on subjectivization and the fundamental fantasy 13. Dealing with psychosis and discourse: a case study
About the author
Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist from the Université Rennes 2, France, where he received his doctorate in psychology. He has been a professor in several psychology departments and is currently a member of the psychoanalytic association Analítica and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Manuela Beltrán.
Summary
In A Social Ontology of Psychosis, Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes explores how to interpret and apply the concept of the signifier of the Name-of-the-Father in Lacanian theory, particularly in the context of working with psychosis.
