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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... Pleasure Principle The Plan and Pitfalls of Freud's Argument Toward an Alternative Reading ix xi xii 1. 47 47 51 55 60 65 4. 71 72 78 Returning Freud to Himself Reconsidering Freud's Turn to Biology The vii Table of Contents.
... Pleasure Principle, which in 1920 . . . introduces the death drive, remains the most fascinating and baffling text in the entire Freudian corpus”2: If life ... is regarded as materially present at the frontiers of the psyche, death's ...
... pleasure principle was therefore tantamount to a “constancy principle” (SE, 18:9). The reality principle, under the operation of which tensions might be tolerated for a time in order to be more satisfactorily discharged later on ...
... pleasure principle,” a paradoxical pleasure in pain. The evidence pointed Freud to what he could only call “mysterious masochistic trends of the ego” (SE, 18:14). The repetitive, even compulsively repetitive character of these phenomena ...
... Pleasure Principle did Freud settle on a definitive view of the problem of aggression. Only then did he resolve the difficult question of sadism and masochism that had always oriented his thinking about human aggression. It became clear ...
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 |