| Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis Contributor(s): Rousselle, Duane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350003565 ISBN-13: 9781350003569 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Philosophy | Movements - Realism |
| LCCN: 2018285723 |
| Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.08 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) "opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Rancière, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rousselle, Duane: - Duane Rousselle is Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. He also maintains a private practice in Lacanian psychoanalysis. |