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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... death drive to be a fanciful excess of theorizing , unjustified by the facts . David Rapaport characterized it as " a ... death instinct we now know was based on a misapplication of physical principles to living organisms . Today it is ...
... death drive . Thus Henri Ellenberger has remarked that " Freud's concept of the death instinct can be best understood against the background of the preoccupation with death shared by a number of his eminent contemporaries : biologists ...
... 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 doctrine completely " ( E : S , 301 ) . Lacan ...
... death instinct , becomes unthinkable for them . ... It is difficult , however , to take as a mere sideshow , still less as a mistake , of the Freudian doctrine , the work which is precisely the prelude to the new topography represented ...
... death and destruction ! Oriented by the role of the signifier , Lacan locates the meaning of the death drive in a ... instinct is only the mask of the symbolic order .... The symbolic order is simultaneously non - being and insisting ...
Inhoudsopgave
19 | |
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 |