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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... problem the clinical implications of which I will touch upon only in passing. Second, it is selective in its scope. Although the concept of the death drive is among the most basic of all psychoanalytic concepts, my discussion of it ...
... problem. As Laplanche indicates , Freud's hypothesis of the death drive was of central importance during his last years . Unlike so many of Freud's basic ideas , however , the death drive has not found a significant place in the popular ...
... problem to which Freud's theory of the death drive provided a solution. From the inception of psychoanalysis in the 1890s and throughout the two and a half decades that followed, Freud conceived the psychic apparatus as a homeostatic ...
... problems plaguing psychoanalytic theory. Primary among them were the origins of human aggressiveness and the nature and ... problem of aggression. Only then did he resolve the difficult question of sadism and masochism that had always ...
... problem lay not so much in any discrepancy between the idea of the death drive and the rest of the psychoanalytic theory but rather in the way Freud seemed to distort the issue of death to make it compatible with his general paradigm of ...
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 |