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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... that the work be infinite , in order to absorb all one's energy in an effort to understand , leaving nothing for critique.30 The difficulty of Lacan's style is not wholly unintentional . Convinced that the curative effect of analysis ...
... that the value of Lacan's innovations for reading the text of Freud . I will take seriously Lacan's claim to " return to Freud . " My effort must finally be considered an explication of Lacan's work less for its own sake than for the ...
... that] the death instinct in man [signifies] that his libido is originally constrained to pass through an imaginary stage” (S.I, 149). At another point, however, it is the symbolic that appears as the order of death. Thus we read that “the ...
... that the lateness of dentition and of walking , a lateness correlative for the majority of bodily equipment and functions , indicates in the infant a total vital impotence which lasts through the first two years .... [ W ] e must not ...
... that “ the total form of the body by which the subject anticipates in a mirage the maturation of his power is given to him only as a Gestalt ... that fixes it and in a symmetry that inverts it , in contrast to the turbulent movements that ...
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 |