An exploration of a new concept in critical political theory: the Lacanian Left. This is a field of theoretical and political interventions sharing a common interest in discussing the relevance of ...Lacanianism and psychoanalysis for contemporary theory.
Les premiers Séminaires de Jacques Lacan (1953-1959) offrent une élaboration systématique des notions de l’Imaginaire et du Symbolique, mais font référence de façon seulement sporadique à la notion ...du Réel. Malgré la rareté des références, la conception du Réel que l’on peut en déduire est précise et cohérente, et confirmée par les séminaires successifs – au moins jusqu’au Séminaire XI (1964). Le Réel est à comprendre comme une matière indéterminée qui, tout en pâtissant du signifiant, lui résiste. Ceci constitue une innovation, de la part de Lacan, par rapport au concept philosophique classique de la matière (du moins tel qu’on le trouve chez Aristote, pour qui la matière n’offre aucune résistance à sa propre mise en forme) et prépare la base pour la théorie de l’objet a en tant que signifiant de la castration du sujet opérée par le langage, telle qu’elle est élaborée à la fin du Séminaire VI (1958-1959) et dans le Séminaire X (1962-1963).
Has Jacques Lacan's impact on psychoanalysis really been assessed? His formulation that the Freudian unconscious is "structured like a language" is well-known, but this was only the beginning. There ...was then the radically new thesis of the "real unconscious". Why this step? Searching for the Ariadne's thread that runs throughout Lacan's ever-evolving teaching, this book illuminates the questions implicit in each step, and sheds new light on his revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts. In tracing these, the author brings out their consequences for the clinic, and in particular, for the subject, for symptoms, for affects, and for the aims of treatment itself. The last section of the book examines the political import of these developments. If many analysts since Freud have dreamt of reinventing psychoanalysis, the author shows the ways in which Lacan succeeded in this reinvention.
The theoretical writings of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary European thought. While the combined corpus of these three figures contains a significant ...number of references to each other's work, such references are often simply critical, obscure - or both. Lacan Deleuze Badiou guides us through the crucial, under-remarked interrelations between these three thinkers, identifying the conceptual passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie the often superficial statements of critique, indifference or agreement. Working through the rubrics of the contemporary, time, the event and truth, Bartlett, Clemens and Roffe present a new, lucid account of where these three thinkers stand in relation to one another and why their nexus remains unsurpassed as a point of reference for contemporary thought itself.
Argues that Lacan's contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan's entire body of work. Lacan's conception of ...rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues in Lacan in Public, upsets and extends the received wisdom of American rhetorical studies.
The Psychoanalysis of Sense shows that Deleuze was not merely aware of the debates animating the Lacanian School during the 1960s: he sought to contribute to them. He offers a new, integrated reading ...of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (1969) by understanding it as a psychoanalysis of sense .
The critical perspective of anthropocentrism developed by philosophers such as Jean-Marie Schaeffer and his problematization of the thesis of human exception, seek to show that numerous philosophical ...or philosophically relevant concepts still have the anachronistic assumption of an absolute discontinuity of humans with respect to the rest of living beings. Said assumption brings both ethical and epistemological problems. Based on this current philosophical framework, this article analyzes the possibility of finding this assumption in two concepts of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, namely, the mirror stage and the paternal function. The objective is not so much to problematize its validity in relation to psychoanalytic theory, but rather, its contemporary philosophical relevance in a critical context of the idea of human exceptionalism. KEYWORDS: ANTHROPOCENTRISM; THESIS OF HUMAN EXCEPTION; PATERNAL FUNCTION; MIRROR STAGE; MIRROR TEST La perspectiva crítica del antropocentrismo desarrollada por filósofos como Jean-Marie Schaeffer y su problematización de la tesis de la excepción humana, buscan evidenciar que a numerosos conceptos filosóficos o de relevancia filosófica aún les subyace el supuesto anacrónico de una discontinuidad absoluta de los seres humanos respecto del resto de los seres vivos. Dicho supuesto acarrea problemas que son tanto éticos como epistemológicos. Partiendo de este marco filosófico actual, en este artículo se analizará la presencia de dicho supuesto en dos conceptos de la teoría psicoanalítica lacaniana, a saber, el estadio del espejo y la función del padre. El objetivo no es tanto problematizar su vigencia en lo que respecta a la teoría psicoanalítica, sino, más bien, su pertinencia filosófica contemporánea en un contexto crítico de la idea de una excepcionalidad humana. PALABRAS CLAVE: ANTROPOCENTRISMO; TESIS DE LA EXCEPCIÓN HUMANA; FUNCIÓN PATERNA; ESTADIO DEL ESPEJO; PRUEBA DEL ESPEJO
The critical perspective of anthropocentrism developed by philosophers such as Jean-Marie Schaeffer and his problematization of the thesis of human exception, seek to show that numerous philosophical ...or philosophically relevant concepts still have the anachronistic assumption of an absolute discontinuity of humans with respect to the rest of living beings. Said assumption brings both ethical and epistemological problems. Based on this current philosophical framework, this article analyzes the possibility of finding this assumption in two concepts of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, namely, the mirror stage and the paternal function. The objective is not so much to problematize its validity in relation to psychoanalytic theory, but rather, its contemporary philosophical relevance in a critical context of the idea of human exceptionalism.
A reconfiguration of the reception of Deleuze and Lacan in contemporary Continental philosophy.It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity ...and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart. This volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective thoughts. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a 'disjunctive synthesis' which acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading.
En este artículo se propone un recorrido por la noción de escritura en las enseñanzas de Jacques Lacan con el fin de identificar el sentido o los sentidos que se alojan en ella. Asimismo, se pretende ...analizar con qué elementos teóricos se articula, y rescatar su aporte para los estudios del lenguaje. Entre los conceptos que provienen del campo de los estudios del lenguaje, esta noción no ha sido objeto, hasta el momento, de un estudio detallado. Sin embargo, este término persiste a lo largo de los escritos y los seminarios del psicoanalista. Como resultado de este trabajo se ha podido identificar cierta continuidad, pero también ruptura, en los modos en que Lacan concibe la escritura. Mientras que en una primera instancia la escritura es definida como una marca distintiva, lo que le supone un parentesco con el significante, en un segundo momento es entendida como sostén de goce. Podría pensarse que este segundo sentido conlleva la idea de marca; sin embargo, es una marca que ha perdido su valor "distintivo", que no está ya en línea con el significante, sino que está definida desde el registro real. Palabras clave: Estudios del lenguaje, psicoanálisis, real, escuela francesa, significante. The purpose of this article is to make a journey through the notion of writing in the teachings of Jacques Lacan in order to identify the sense or the senses that can be localized in it. Likewise, it pretends to analyze the theoretical elements with which it is articulated and rescue its contribution to the language studies. Among the concepts that come from the field of language studies, this notion has not been the object, until now, of a detailed study. However, this term persists throughout the writings and seminars of the psychoanalyst. As a result of this work, a certain continuity was identified, but also a break in the ways in which Lacan conceives this term. While in the first instance writing is defined as a distinctive mark, which implies a proximity with the signifier, in a second moment it is understood as support of jouissance. It could be thought that this second sense entails the idea of mark; however, it is a mark that has lost its "distinctive" value, which is no longer in line with the signifier, but is defined form the real register. Key Words: Language studies, psychoanalysis, real, French school, signifier.
