Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)

Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)
Author: Markos Zafiropoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429901267
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Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, the author shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's theories of the symbolic function, of the power of language, of the role of the father and even of the unconscious itself owe a major debt to Levi-Strauss. Lacan and Levi-Strauss is much more than an academic study of the relations between these two thinkers: it is also a superb introduction to the work of Lacan, setting out with detail and lucidity the major concepts of his work in the 1950s.

Lacan and Levi-Strauss Or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)

Lacan and Levi-Strauss Or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)
Author: Markos Zafiropoulos
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Release: 2018
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780429476495
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"Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's theories of the symbolic function, of the power of language, of the role of the father and even of the unconscious itself owe a major debt to Levi-Strauss.Lacan and Levi-Strauss is much more than an academic study of the relations between these two thinkers: it is also a superb introduction to the work of Lacan, setting out with detail and lucidity the major concepts of his work in the 1950s."--Provided by publisher.

A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms

A Jungian Understanding of Symbolic Function and Forms
Author: Dominique Boukhabza
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2023-08-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000924475
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The purpose of this book is to clarify the function of the symbol and its place at the juncture of psychoanalysis and other social sciences, where the singular and the collective intersect and whose laws are identical. The debate between Freud and Jung about the symbol is well known; by examining the points of contradiction between their respective approaches, this book seeks to place them in fruitful tension, rather than categorical opposition and explore their similarities and differences. In later chapters, the author further analyses the function of the symbol in relation to the topics of myth, anthropology and dreams. This thoughtful book will appeal to those interested and involved in analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.

The Anti-Oedipus Complex

The Anti-Oedipus Complex
Author: Rob Weatherill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1315532484
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The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post ‘68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud’s paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry, schizoanalysis and radical politics, the complex antimonies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Levinas, Steiner, Žižek, Badiou, Derrida and Girard, as well as theologians, analysts, writers, musicians and film makers. In this book, Rob Weatherill, starting from the clinic, considers the end of hierarchies, the loss of the Other, new subjectivities, so-called ‘creative destruction’, the power of negative thinking, revolutionary action, divine violence and new forms of extreme control. The book raises the following questions: Does the engagement of the Radical Orthodoxy movement offer some hope? Or should we re-situate psychoanalysis within a ‘genealogy of responsibility’ (Patočka / Derrida) as it emerges out of the sacred demonic, via Plato and Christianity? The Anti-Oedipus Complex will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers and scholars in critical theory, philosophy, cultural theory, literary theory and theology.

Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Author: Morris N. Eagle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351392646
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In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic theory, which ones should be retained, which should be modified and in what ways, and which should be discarded? The key concepts and issues explored in this book include: Are transference interpretations necessary for positive therapeutic outcomes? Are the analyst’s countertransference reactions a reliable guide to the patient’s unconscious mental states? Is projective identification a coherent concept? Psychoanalytic styles of thinking and writing. Unlike other previous discussions of such concepts, this book systematically evaluates them in the light of conceptual critique as well as recent research-based evidence and empirical data. Written with Eagle’s piercing clarity of voice, Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis challenges previously unquestioned psychoanalytic assumptions and will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and anyone interested in integrating core psychoanalytic concepts, research, and theory with other disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, and social work.

Lacan et Lévi-Strauss ou le retour à Freud, 1951–1957

Lacan et Lévi-Strauss ou le retour à Freud, 1951–1957
Author: Markos Zafiropoulos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788520012628
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Análise original do importante psicanalista Markos Zafiropoulos sobre a proximidade de Lacan e as ciências sociais. Jacques Lacan e Claude Lévi-Strauss frequentemente são citados em análises sobre o pensamento estruturalista francês. Neste importante estudo, o psicanalista grego Markos Zafiropoulos vai além e mostra que importantes conceitos lacanianos - como o retorno a Freud, Nome-do-Pai, entre outros - só puderam ser elaborados a partir da leitura que o psicanalista francês fez de Lévi-Strauss. Muito mais do que um estudo acadêmico das relações entre esses dois intelectuais, este é também uma excelente introdução ao trabalho de Lacan, analisando com detalhes e lucidez os principais conceitos de seu trabalho na década de 1950. Sobre Lacan e Lévi-Strauss ou o retorno a Freud (1951-1957), o psicanalista Joel Birman, afirma: "É preciso reconhecer a originalidade dessa leitura teórica de Lacan, pois até então os estudos sobre sua obra eram centrados na incorporação que fizera da linguística (Saussure e Jakobson) e da filosofia (Hegel e Heidegger). Dessa maneira, Zafiropoulos empreende uma renovação no âmbito da tradição lacaniana, delineando o campo para a interlocução da psicanálise com as ciências sociais, numa obra sólida, bem argumentada e sistematizada, além de oferecer para o campo psicanalítico outra possibilidade de leitura para o autor que, inequivocamente, subverteu a psicanálise desde os anos 1950. Enfim Lacan foi revisitado, com outros olhos e ouvidos, neste livro inovador."

Reading Seminars I and II

Reading Seminars I and II
Author: Richard Feldstein
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1996-02-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 143840252X
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In this collection of essays, Lacan's early work is first discussed systematically by focusing on his two earliest seminars: Freud's Papers on Technique and The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. These essays, by some of the finest analysts and writers in the Lacanian psychoanalytic world in Paris today, carefully lay out the background and development of Lacan's thought. In Part I, Jacques-Alain Miller spells out the philosophical and psychiatric origins of Lacan's work in great detail. In Parts II, III, and IV, Colette Soler, Eric Laurent, and others explain in the clearest of fashions the highly influential conceptualization Lacan introduces with the terms "symbolic," "imaginary," and "real." Part V provides the first sustained account in English to date of Lacan's reformulation of psychoanalytic diagnostic categories--neurosis, perversion, psychosis, and their subcategories--their theoretical foundations, and clinical applications (ample case material is provided here.) Parts VI and VII of this collection take us well beyond Seminars I and II, relating Lacan's early work to his later views of the 1960s and 1970s. Slavoj Zizek explores the complex philosophical relations between Hegel and Lacan regarding the subject and the cause. And Lacan's article, "On Freud's 'Trieb' and the Psychoanalyst's Desire"--that appears here for the first time in English and is brilliantly unpacked by Jacques-Alain Miller in his "Commentary on Lacan's Text"--takes a giant step forward to 1965 where we see a crucial reversal in Lacan's perspective: desire is suddenly devalued, the defensive, inhibiting nature of desire coming to the fore. "What then becomes essential is the drive as an activity related to the lost object that produces jouissance."

Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud

Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud
Author: Philippe Julien
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1995-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0814742262
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Among the numerous introductions to Lacan published to date in English, Philippe Julien's work is certainly outstanding. Beyond its conceptual clarity the book constitutes an excellent guide to Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. --Andr Patsalides, Psychoanalyst and President, Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis From 1953 to 1980, Jacques Lacan sought to accomplish a return to Freud beyond post- Freudianism. He defined this return as a new convenant with the meaning to the Freudian discovery. Each year through his teaching, he brought about this return. What was at stake in this renewal? Philippe Julien, who joined Lacan's Ecole Freudienne de Paris in 1968, attempts to answer this question. Situtated in the period after-Lacan, Julien shows that Lacan's return to Freud was neither a closing of the Freudian text by responding to questions left unanswered nor a reopening of the text by giving endless new interpretations. Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan's return to Frued was the return of an inevitable discordance between our experience of the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of it. For the unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same moment as it is discovered. It is in this sense that the author can claim that Lacan's return to Freud will have been Freudian. Constantly challenging the reader to submit to the rigors of Lacan's sinuous thinking, this penetrating work goes far beyond being a mere introduction. Rendered into elegant English by the American translator, who added numerous footnotes and scholarly references to the French original, this study brings Lacanian scholarship among English readers to a new level of sophistication. Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan's return to Freud was the return of an inevitable discordance between our experience of the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of it. For the unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same moment as it is discovered. It is in this sense that the author can claim that Lacan's return to Freud was Freudian.

Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)

Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)
Author: Richard Boothby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-02-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317916093
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The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan’s work is challenging too, for the way it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of Freud’s theory – the concept of a self-destructive drive or ‘death instinct’. Originally published in 1991, Death and Desire presents in Lacanian terms a new integration of psychoanalytic theory in which the battery of key Freudian concepts – from the dynamics of the Oedipus complex to the topography of ego, id, and superego – are seen to intersect in Freud’s most far-reaching and speculative formulation of a drive toward death. Boothby argues that Lacan repositioned the theme of death in psychoanalysis in relation to Freud’s main concern – the nature and fate of desire. In doing so, Lacan rediscovered Freud’s essential insights in a manner so nuanced and penetrating that prevailing assessments of the death instinct may well have to be re-examined. Although the death instinct is usually regarded as the most obscure concept in Freud’s metapsychology, and Lacan to be the most perplexing psychoanalytic theorist, Richard Boothby’s straightforward style makes both accessible. He illustrates the coherence of Lacanian thought and shows how Lacan’s work comprises a ‘return to Freud’ along new and different angles of approach. Written with an eye to the conceptual structure of psychoanalytic theory, Death and Desire will appeal to psychoanalysts and philosophers alike.

Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
Author: Jacques Lacan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1988
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393018950
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This volume is the transcript of the first year of Lacan's world-famous seminar. Taking as its theme the technique of psychoanalysis, within the framework of Lancan's 'return to Freud', it includes elaboration of Lacan's notions of the symbolic, the imaginary and the real, the importance of speech and language in psychoanalysis and the interpretation to be put on the mirror stage.