The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Language: English
Pages: 319
ISBN: B00A4A66AE
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This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
Alexandre Kojeve: Wisdom at the End of History (20th Century Political Thinkers)
The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower
be no doubt that Lacan drew inspiration from Koj`eve’s handwritten pages, in which their author suggested that to be up-to-date the thirties would need to progress from Descartes’ philosophy based on “I think” to Freud and Hegel’s philosophy based on “I desire,” on the understanding that desire is the Hegelian Begierde rather than the Freudian Wunsch. Begierde is the desire through which the relation of consciousness to the self is expressed: the issue is to acknowledge the other or otherness
Freudian sense, while Stadium translates the Lacanian concept. 11. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty a` la Sorbonne, r´esum´e de cours 1949– 1952 (Grenoble: Cynara, 1988), pp. 112–13. See also Emile Jalley, Freud, Wallon, Lacan. 12. See Jacques Derrida, “Cogito and the history of madness,” Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), pp. 31–63. 13. Ren´e Descartes, The Philosophical Works, vol. 1, trans. Elizabeth S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross
generally appreciative of Saussure’s work, commending it as one of the most significant steps for the study of language sounds in their functional aspects, yet he also believed that the Course remained deeply entrenched 54 Lacan’s science of the subject in a “naive psychologism,” similar to many nineteenth-century treatises on linguistics.10 In Jakobson’s reading, Saussure had failed to draw the radical conclusions from his novel conception of language, emphasizing psychic impressions over the
105. Bernard Burgoyne, “Autism and topology,” in Drawing the Soul: Schemas and Models in Psychoanalysis, ed. Bernard Burgoyne (London: Rebus Press, 2000). From the letter to the matheme 19. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Die Eitelkeit und Unsicherheit der ¨ Wissenschaften (1530) (Munich: Georg Muller, 1913), preface and chapters i to l i i , passim. See particularly Chapters x i , x x x i x , and l i i . 20. See Bernard Burgoyne, “Freud’s Socrates,” The European Journal of
term Jouissance more or less interchangeably with Freud’s term ‘satisfaction.’” We also find other examples of this indistinction in his book, such as, for instance: “Jouissance (or satisfaction).”6 It is crucial to remind ourselves of the origin of this confusion, given the fatal consequences it unleashed on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. In Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Lacan said: The problem involved is that of jouissance, because jouissance presents itself as buried
