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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... Unconscious Structured like a Language “Au-delà de l'imaginaire, le symbolique” From the Ego to the Subject Reading “Schema L” The Agency of the Letter 6. The Formations of the Unconscious On the Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety ...
... unconscious desire. In doing so, Lacan challenges prevailing assessments of the death drive and invites us to revise our understanding of the psychoanalytic theory as a whole. This inquiry is subject to a number of limitations that ...
... unconscious . Then suddenly in 1920 , it emerges at the center of the system as one of the two fundamental forces - and perhaps even as the only primordial force - in the heart of the psyche , of living beings , and of matter itself ...
... unconscious ) . It is not surprising , then , that many of Freud's followers judged the death drive to be a fanciful excess of theorizing , unjustified by the facts . David Rapaport characterized it as " a speculative excursion which ...
... unconscious . " What the psychoanalytic experience discovers in the unconscious , " Lacan maintains , " is the whole structure of language " ( E : S , 147 ) . As he puts it in the well - known formula that stands like the sign over the ...
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 |