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

Clotilde Leguil explores the boundary between "consenting" and "yielding" from a Lacanian standpoint.
Starting from the definition Lacan gave to psychical and sexual trauma, this book makes the distinction between the ambiguity of consent and the experience of coercion. Clotilde Leguil refers to the #MeToo movement, campaigns against femicides and Vanessa Springora's book Le Consentement (Consent), elaborating on the various degrees of coercion to demonstrate that desire is not drive and that forcing leaves an indelible mark on the individual. Beyond the legal and contractual approach of consent, this book elaborates on the crucial stakes, both clinical and ethical, that this distinction entails.
Lacan and the Question of Consent will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic theorists. It will be relevant for academics and scholars of Lacanian studies, gender studies, feminism and human rights.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Clotilde Leguil is a psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France.

Relazione

"Lacan and the Question of Consent looks deep into the mystery of consent. Clotilde Leguil, a psychoanalyst and a philosopher, highlights this 'experience of openness to the other' which is both intimate and political. Based on works such as Gaslight by George Cukor and The Lover by Marguerite Duras, the essay weaves an original thought culminating in the analysis of the myth of Tereus and Philomela as described by Ovid and demonstrating that "the value of my speech must be recognized by another". A necessity more relevant than ever today." - Juliette Cerf, journalist and critic

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Clotilde Leguil
• Con la collaborazione di: Domitille Krupka (Traduzione)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032882635
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3288263-5
• Pagine: 104
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicanalisi; 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