The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature

Editor: Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Darian Leader, Danny Nobus, Bernard Burgoyne, Colette Soler, Nestor Braunstein, Charles Shepherdson, Joe Valente, Alenka Zupancic, Judith Feher-Gurewich, Diana Rabinovitch, Deborah Luepnitz, Tim Dean, Catherine Liu

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Date Published: July 2003
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521002035

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This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
- Companion to famously influential and difficult thinker
- Editor is an established name; contributions from academics and practitioners from around the globe
- Market is psychology, psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and literary theory
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- Date Published: July 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521002035
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 151 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology
1. Lacan's turns to Freud Jean-Michel Rabaté
2. The mirror-stage: an obliterated archive Elisabeth Roudinesco
3. Lacan's myths Darian Leader
4. Lacan's science of the subject: between linguistics and topology Danny Nobus
5. From the letter to the matheme: Lacan's scientific models Bernard Burgoyne
6. The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis Colette Soler
7. Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan Nestor Braunstein
8. Lacan and philosophy Charles Shepherdson
9. Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Zizek to Althusser) Joe Valente
10. Ethics and tragedy in Lacan Alenka Zupancic
11. A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion Judith Feher-Gurewich
12. What is a Lacanian clinic? Diana Rabinovitch
13. Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism Deborah Luepnitz
14. Lacan and queer theory Tim Dean
15. Lacan's afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol Catherine Liu
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Editor
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent books are Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, and The Future of Theory.
Contributors
Jean-Michel Rabaté, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Darian Leader, Danny Nobus, Bernard Burgoyne, Colette Soler, Nestor Braunstein, Charles Shepherdson, Joe Valente, Alenka Zupancic, Judith Feher-Gurewich, Diana Rabinovitch, Deborah Luepnitz, Tim Dean, Catherine Liu