Synopses & Reviews
'This volume is based on a year\'s seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to \"introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based,\" namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from sexuality and death to alienation and repression. This book constitutes the essence of Dr. Lacan\'s sensibility.'
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Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as "foreclosure," or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications for treatment. In these lectures on the psychoses, Lacan's renowned theory of metaphor and metonymy, along with the concept of the "quilting point," appears for the first time.
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The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.
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Sometimes controversial, invariably fascinating, Lacan's psycholinguistic approach to analysis of the psychoses is seen here in virtually unmediated form.
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'\'One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.\\n
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'Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst\'s inevitable involvement with ethical questions and \"the attraction of transgression,\" Lacan illuminates Freud\'s psychoanalytic work and its continued influence. Lacan explores the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy (a reading of Sophocle\'s Antigone), and the tragic dimension of analytic experience. His exploration leads us to startling insights on \"the consequence of man\'s relationship to desire\" and the conflicting judgments of ethics and analysis.
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A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge.
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Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.
About the Author
The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan(1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Ecritsand The Seminars.