Jacques Lacan And the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

by Clemens, Justin; Grigg, Russell

• ISBN13: 9780822337195
• ISBN10: 0822337193
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-03
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May '68, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan's thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues. Collecting important analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology is at once an introduction, critique, and extension of Lacan's influential ideas.The contributors examine Lacan's theory of the four discourses, his critique of the Oedipus complex and the superego, the role of primal affects in political life, and his prophetic grasp of twenty-first-century developments. They take up these issues in detail, illuminating the Lacanian concepts with in-depth discussions of shame and guilt, literature and intimacy, femininity, perversion, authority and revolt, and the discourse of marketing and political rhetoric. Topics of more specific psychoanalytic interest include the role of object a, the master's discourse, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the status of knowledge, and the relation between psychoanalytic practices and the modern university.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
I CLINIC OF THE DISCOURSES
1 Jacques-Alain Miller,
On Shame	11	(18)
2 Paul Verhaeghe,
Enjoyment and Impossibility: Lacan's Revision of the Oedipus Complex	29	(21)
3 Russell Grigg,
Beyond the Oedipus Complex	50	(19)
4 Ellie Ragland,
The Hysteric's Truth	69	(19)
5 Dominick Hoens,
Toward a New Perversion: Psychoanalysis	88	(19)
II THE OTHER SIDE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
6 Slavoj Žižek,
Objet a in Social Links	107	(22)
7 Mladen Dolar,
Hegel as the Other Side of Psychoanalysis	129	(26)
8 Alenka Zupancic
When Surplus Enjoyment Meets Surplus Value	155	(24)
9 Oliver Feltham,
Enjoy Your Stay: Structural Change in Seminar XVII	179	(16)
10 Juliet Flower MacCannell,
More Thoughts for the Times on War and Death: The Discourse of Capitalism in Seminar XVII	195	(21)
11 Dominique Hecq,
The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis	216	(13)
III DISCOURSES OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE
12 Éric Laurent,
Symptom and Discourse	229	(25)
13 Marie-Hélène Brousse,
Common Markets and Segregation	254	(9)
14 Pierre-Gilles Guéguen,
The Intimate, the Extirpate, and Psychoanalytic Discourse	263	(11)
15 Geoff Boucher,
Bureaucratic Speech Acts and the University Discourse: Lacan's Theory of Modernity	274	(18)
16 Matthew Sharpe,
The "Revolution" in Advertising and University Discourse	292	(23)
Contributors	315	(4)
Index	319