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2008
'all politics rests on the fact that the entire world is only too happy to have someone who says "quick march!"-towards no matter what-Jacques Lacan, 'Geneva Lecture on the symptom' this new book, Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis, comes not a moment too soon. I say that because when I read the first essay I wished that I had already read it, already knew it. this essay is so timely and poignant in what it has to tell us about contemporary social discourses that it's already too late. What this shows us is how prescient and anticipatory Lacan was in 1969 in his thinking and speaking about psychoanalysis and its relations to (what we used to call) civilization. Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis brings together sixteen essays that are mostly all responses to Lacan's seventeenth seminar given in the academic year of 1969-70. this seminar is already published in french and has the title L'envers de la psychanalyse. seen from this distance, seminar XVII is especially significant in that it marks and predicts, quite alarmingly, the social changes that were only beginning at that time, and the effects upon the constitution of subjectivity that these discursive shifts will entail. seminar XVII, given a year after the student uprisings in Paris, is the seminar in which Lacan introduces his theory of the four discourses-the four discursive arrangements of jouissance that constitute our social bonds and our subjectivity (or lack of it). It is in this seminar that he says he wants to ask the question about the place of psychoanalysis in relation to politics. Lacan's thesis about this period of late capitalism is that brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk
Psychoanalysis operates upon the subject of science: Lacan between science and ethics
Glynos, G. & Stavrakakis, Y. (Eds.) Lacan and science. London: Karnac, 2002
Unlike modern scientific theories which are meant to shed light on nature and not on their practices as such (leaving this task to historians and philosophers of science), psychoanalytic theory is meant to give just such an account of its own practice. And yet, as a praxis, psychoanalysis maintains that it cannot be reduced to theory.
Three Notes on Science and Psychoanalysis
In my text I would like to focus on the relation between formalization and psychoanalysis in Lacan's later teaching, wherein I shall discuss the problematic in close relation to Freudian scientism, on one hand, and to the question of contingency, on the other. When entering this topic the first question that might arise is why one should bring together such apparently heterogeneous fields as mathematics and psychoanalysis: Why would psychoanalysts need something like the formulas of sexuation, the graph of desire, the vector of drive, aspheric topology, and Borromean knots, to name the most notorious examples from Lacan's teaching? What is the "use-value" of mathematical formulas, and simultaneously, what is their epistemological lesson?
From the criminal to the sinthome : Lacan's ethics of psychoanalysis and contemporary life
2010
This thesis examines the continuity and the changes in Lacan's elaboration of psychoanalytic ethics. It focuses in particular on the shift from Lacan's classic formulation of psychoanalytic ethics in relation to the criminal figures of Sade and Antigone in Seminar VII, to his later formulation of a psychoanalytic ethics based on a re-elaboration of the concept of symptom - the sinthome - in the 1970s. By illustrating the way in which psychoanalytic ethics is constantly, from Freud to Lacan, defined against a critique of civilization, and by engaging with a number of contemporary clinical readings of Lacan's work, this thesis argues that the development of Lacan's understanding of psychoanalytic ethics should be seen as an attempt to adapt the practice of psychoanalysis to a major change in the structure of contemporary civilization. In this way, this thesis also insists on the importance of maintaining a distinction between Lacan's theory of ethics and, on the ot...
Lacan's subject: the imaginary, language, the real and philosophy.
The thought of the psychoanalytical thinker, Jacques Lacan, is examined in this paper with a view to ascertaining the place and function in it of the so-called imaginary , the symbolic as well as the 'real'. The extent to which the imaginary or realm of images is construed by Lacan as being the order of identification and a (spurious) sense of unity of the ego or self, is contrasted with the symbolic (or linguistic) order as that of the subject and of desire, in fact, of the subject of desire. The place and meaning of the enigmatic third register in Lacan's thought, namely the 'real' is also addressed in relation to the question of desire. Furthermore, the question is raised, where philosophy in its traditional sense belongs-to the Lacanian register of the imaginary or to that of the symbolic.
Lacanian Subversion: Psychoanalysis for the Post-Humanity Era
Crisis and Critique - 50 Years After May 68, 2018
The present article explores the triad theory-practice-political for psychoanalysis portraying contradictions, missusages and paradoxes, which derive from it. The discussion of the political as a feature embedded within the field is articulated and problematized. Through the Lacanian notion of subversion, this essay examines Lacan's position on May '68 and metapsychological implications for the field of such discussion. Focusing on what a psychoanalysis for the post-humanity era would look like, this critical appreciation of the political and Lacanian subversiveness, tensions the ethical of the field itself.