Lacan and the PoliticalRoutledge, 11 sep 2002 - 198 pagina's The work of Jacques Lacan is second only to Freud in its impact on psychoanalysis. Yannis Stavrakakis clearly examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a political standpoint. It is the first book to provide an overview of the social and political implications of Lacan's work as a whole for students coming to Lacan for the first time. |
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... that, from the very beginning, Lacan was aware of a two-way movement betweenthe individual and the social level. As his work evolved and his approach radicalised, he was led to deconstruct the whole essentialist 3 INTRODUCTION.
Yannis Stavrakakis. approach radicalised, he was led to deconstruct the whole essentialist division between the two. As we shall see, he does so by introducing a novel conception of subjectivity, a 'socio-political' conception of ...
... is an 'objective' not reducible to the traditional essentialist approaches to social objectivity. In that sense, what reveals the majorpolitical significance of Lacan's work is the fact that his split subject 7 INTRODUCTION.
... essentialist subject, of a subject articulated around a single positive essence which is transparent to itself and fully representable in theoretical discourse. But this essentialist subject, the subject of the humanist philosophical ...
... essentialist formulations. For Lacan it is 'true that the philosopher's cogito is at the centre of the mirage that renders modern man so sure of being himself even in his uncertainties about himself' (E: 165). But this essentialist ...