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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... Lacanian angle of view allows many of Freud's major concepts—of anxiety and repetition, castration and the superego, narcissism and sublimation—to be reorganized in a distinctive integration. I hope to show how a Lacanian interpretation ...
... Lacan. Lacan does more than reemphasize Freud's notion of the death drive, he re-installs it at the very center of psychoanalytic theory. “To ignore the death instinct in [Freud's] doctrine,” he insists, “is to misunderstand that ...
Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud Richard Boothby. According to Lacan, the problem of the death drive ... Lacanian school, “the unconscious is structured like a language” (E:S, 243). And indeed, it is instructive to take ...
... Lacan's formulation readily appears an unlikely one. The common conception of Freud's discovery, far from suggesting an identity between the unconscious and language, tends to define them as mutually exclusive. As Jean Laplanche has ...
... Lacan's discourse signals its importance for his thinking. Even a brief encounter with Lacan's text serves to alert us to the very privileged status of the word in Lacan's vocabulary. Yet it is not easy to determine precisely its ...
Inhoudsopgave
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2 Lacanian Reflections on Narcissism | 21 |
3 The Energetics of the Imaginary | 47 |
4 Rereading Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 71 |
5 The Unconscious Structured like a Language | 105 |
6 The Formations of the Unconscious | 139 |
7 Metapsychology in the Perspective of Metaphysics | 185 |
Desire Beyond the Imaginable | 223 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 261 |
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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 |