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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... behind the experience of guilt . It was in answer to this question that Freud offered another of his most speculative ... Beyond the Pleasure Principle may be regarded as introducing the final phase of his views . " Despite occasional ...
... Beyond the Pleasure Principle , Freud reaffirmed his faith in the basic correctness of the death - drive theory , relying on the duality of life and death to frame his most sweeping conception of the nature and progress of human ...
... Beyond the Pleasure Principle as the " pivotal point " in the evolution of Freud's thought ( S.II , 165 ) . In that work is announced " the culminating point of Freud's doctrine that death instinct whose enigma Freud propounded for us ...
... Beyond the Pleasure Principle ... is the work of Freud that most of those who authorize themselves with the title of psychoanalyst don't hesitate to reject as a superfluous , even chance , speculation insofar as the supreme antinomy ...
... beyond life that language gives to the human being by virtue of the fact that he speaks . ( E : S , 301 ) For Lacan , the death drive can be understood only against the background of the matrix of linguistic signifiers that he calls 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 |