Lacan and the Question of Consent - Why Yielding Is Not Consenting

Clotilde Leguil explores the boundary between "consenting" and "yielding" from a Lacanian standpoint.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
I. The "We" of Rebellion, the "I" of Consent.
II. The Enigma of Consent
III. The Frontier Between "to Yield" and "to Consent"
IV. Consent: Intimate and Political
V. Shy of Consenting, "Letting It Happen"
VI. Yielding "on"
VII. Yielding "to"
VIII. Severed Tongue
IX. Who Will Believe Me?
X. Reviving Silence, Coming Back from It
XI. Consenting to Be Other to Oneself.
XII. Mad Concessions
XIII. Beyond Rebellion, Consenting to Say
Appendix
Bibliography
Filmography

About the author

Clotilde Leguil is a psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France.

Product details

• Authors: Clotilde Leguil
• Assisted by: Domitille Krupka (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032882659
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3288265-9
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Sexual abuse & harassment, Psychotherapy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Sexual abuse and harassment, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis