Lacan, Language, and Philosophy, livre ebook

Clinical and philosophical perspectives on key issues and debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Clinical and philosophical perspectives on key issues and debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed by a background in analytic philosophy. He addresses key issues in Lacanian psychoanalysis, from the clinical (how psychosis results from the foreclosure of the signifier the Name-of-the Father; the father as a symbolic function; the place of transference) to the philosophical (the logic of the "pas-tout"; the link between the superego and Kant's categorical imperative; a critique of Žižek's account of radical change). Grigg's expertise and knowledge of psychoanalysis produce a major contribution to contemporary philosophical and psychoanalytic debates.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1Psychosis, Neurosis, and the Name-of-the-Father

1. Foreclosure

2. The Father's Function

3. Beyond the Oedipus Complex

4. Signifier and Object in the Transference

5. Regulating Psychoanalysis

Part 2Analyzing Philosophers: Descartes, Kant, Žižek, Badiou, and Jakobson

6. Lacan and Badiou: Logic of the Pas-Tout

7. Kant and Freud

8. Built, the Law, and Transgression

9. Absolute Freedom and Radical Change: On Žižek

10. Descartes and the Subject of Science

11. Lacan and Jakobson: Metaphor and Metonymy

Notes
Bibliography
Index