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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... objects, seemed to lend support to the instinctual monism of Jung and his followers. The new theory of life-and-death instincts reexpressed Freud's deeply held dualist sensibility as it installed conflict in the heart of the psychical ...
... object or signified. In opposition to the gestalt principles and relations of perceptual resemblance that govern the semiotics of the imaginary, the order of the symbolic functions in accordance with rules internal to the signifying ...
... object - to the libidinal object - is subject to all sorts of risks . Synthesis miscarries . ( S.I , 168 ) The beneficial effect of the imago as Lacan thinks of it , again following Wallon , relates to the radical incoordination of the ...
... object recognition will be built . The imaginary Gestalt provides the basis for the perception of discrete things as ... objects with attributes of permanence , identity , and substantiality , in short , with entities or “ things ” that ...
... object. The imago is “the proper object of psychology in exactly the same way that the Galilean notion of the inert material point served as the foundation for physics” (E, 188). The. Imaginary. Register. of. the. Drives. In more than one ...
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 |