Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981

The monstrosity of Christ: paradox or dialectic?

by Žižek, Slavoj, Milbank, John, Davis, Creston

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In 'The Monstrosity of Christ', a militant Marxist atheist (Žižek) and a 'radical orthodox' Christian theologian (Milbank) square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.

Lacanian Coordinates: Volume 1: From the Logic of the Signifier to the …

by Wolf, Bogdan

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Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan's teaching, from the logic of the signifier and the Lacanian subject, to the drive and object a, qua object a, …

Introducing Lacan

by Leader, Darian, Groves, Julia, Bach, Johann Sebastian

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This series is renowned for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around.

Psychoanalysing ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: on and off the couch

by Swales, Stephanie S., Owens, Carol

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"Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love-to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence,…

Jouissance: a Lacanian concept

by Braunstein, Néstor A., Rosman, Silvia Nora

fromSUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, lit…

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"Whether inscribed within the context of capitalist or neoliberal logic and its imperative to "enjoy," as a critique of all forms of hetero-normativity, a liberating force in a positive reading of biopolitics, the point of inflection in the ethics of psychoanalysis, or articulat…

Subject lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the future of materialism

fromDiaeresis

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"This collection of eleven philosophical essays addresses current trends in materialist philosophy dealing with subject-object relations, amounting to a polemical corrective that insists on the organizing role of the subject within materialist thought"--.

Conversations with Lacan: seven lectures for understanding Lacan

by Benvenuto, Sergio

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"Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in philosophy and the social sciences, in a book that shows how it is possible to…

Esoteric Lacan

fromReframing continental philosophy of religion

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"Jacques Lacan is a seminal figure in the history of thought, whose radical contributions to thinking on subjectivity, sexuality and language are hugely influential. However, Lacan's engagements with religion - and specifically with traditions beyond the hegemonic European tradi…

Jacques the sophist: Lacan, logos, and psychoanalysis

by Cassin, Barbara, Syrotinski, Michael

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"In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and un…