Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan): Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to FreudRoutledge, 5 feb 2014 - 288 pagina's The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan’s work is challenging too, for the way it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of Freud’s theory – the concept of a self-destructive drive or ‘death instinct’. Originally published in 1991, Death and Desire presents in Lacanian terms a new integration of psychoanalytic theory in which the battery of key Freudian concepts – from the dynamics of the Oedipus complex to the topography of ego, id, and superego – are seen to intersect in Freud’s most far-reaching and speculative formulation of a drive toward death. Boothby argues that Lacan repositioned the theme of death in psychoanalysis in relation to Freud’s main concern – the nature and fate of desire. In doing so, Lacan rediscovered Freud’s essential insights in a manner so nuanced and penetrating that prevailing assessments of the death instinct may well have to be re-examined. Although the death instinct is usually regarded as the most obscure concept in Freud’s metapsychology, and Lacan to be the most perplexing psychoanalytic theorist, Richard Boothby’s straightforward style makes both accessible. He illustrates the coherence of Lacanian thought and shows how Lacan’s work comprises a ‘return to Freud’ along new and different angles of approach. Written with an eye to the conceptual structure of psychoanalytic theory, Death and Desire will appeal to psychoanalysts and philosophers alike. |
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... Narcissism Life in the Mirror The Imaginary Register of the Drives The Imaginary Ego Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis: The Human Being against Itself What Is “Alienation”? 3. The Energetics of the Imaginary The Career of a Metaphor ...
... narcissism and sublimation — to be reorganized in a distinctive integration . I hope to show how a Lacanian interpretation , far from muddying the waters of psychoanalytic theory , serves to clarify and coordinate the meaning of many of ...
... narcissism. The theory of narcissism, which supposed a differential investment of libido between the ego and its objects, seemed to lend support to the instinctual monism of Jung and his followers. The new theory of life-and-death ...
... of the death drive but also a better understanding of Lacan's own thought as it illuminates the relations of the imaginary , symbolic , and real to one another . 2 Lacanian Reflections on Narcissism DOI : 10.4324 / 9781315851570-2.
... life we're captive of , this essentially alienated life , existing , this life in the other , is as such joined to death , it always returns to death " ( S.II , 233 ) . And elsewhere : " Lacanian Reflections on Narcissism.
Inhoudsopgave
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The Energetics of the Imaginary | |
Rereading Beyond the Pleasure Principle | |
The Unconscious Structured like a Language | |
The Formations of the Unconscious | |
Metapsychology in the Perspective of Metaphysics | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan): Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud Richard Boothby Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2014 |
Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud Richard Boothby Fragmentweergave - 1991 |
Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud Richard Boothby Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1991 |