Disseminating Lacan

Edited by David Pettigrew & François Raffoul

Subjects: Psychoanalysis
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Paperback : 9780791427866, 392 pages, April 1996
Hardcover : 9780791427859, 392 pages, April 1996

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Editors' Introduction

PART I. LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY

The Concept of the Subject of the Unconscious

Juan-David Nasio

The Order of the Real. ' Nietzsche and Lacan

Babette Babich

Lacan and Merleau-Ponty: The Confrontation of Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology

James Phillips

PART II. LACAN AND SCIENCE

The Epistemological Status of Lacan's Mathematical Paradigms

Joël Dor

Sociology Before Linguistics: Lacan's Debt to Durkheim

Stephen Michelman

Toward a New Alliance between Psychoanalysis and Social Theory

Judith Feher Gurewich

PART III. LACAN, AESTHETICS, AND LITERATURE

The Third Generation of Desire

William Richardson

Lacan: The Poetic Unconscious

David Pettigrew

Lacan and Modernism: Representation and Its Vicissitudes

Thomas Brockelman

PART IV. THE QUESTION OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER

Sexuality in Neurosis and Psychosis: Two Letters from Freud to Jung

Moustapha Safouan

Jocelyn, a Story of the Soul

Cora Monroe

Queering the Phallus

Debra Bergoften

PART V. PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE

The Oedipus Problem in Freud and Lacan

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

Lacan and Schatzman: Reflections on the Concept of "Paternal Metaphor"

Wilfried Ver Eecke

The Psychical Meaning of Life and Death: Reflections on the Lacanian Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

Richard Boothby

A Semiotic Correlate of Psychotic States

John Muller

Contributors

Index

Brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated in their respective research areas and outlines the shape of Lacanian discourse, showing the relation of Lacan's thought to philosophy, science, literature and aesthetics, gender and sexuality, and psychoanalytic theory.

Description

The distinguishing feature of Disseminating Lacan is its decidedly interdisciplinary approach. This book brings together diverse research efforts which have remained, until now, isolated in their respective subject-matter areas.

The essays selected here exhibit a threefold discursive movement of dissemination which is implicit in Lacan's texts. First, they bring to light the way in which Lacan's text has been formed through diverse "borrowings" from various theoretical discourses such as sociology, linguistics, and philosophy. Second, they trace how Lacan's text, in turn, has engaged, affected, and transformed those theoretical disciplines. Third, they suggest some possible critical readings of Lacan from various perspectives and concerns. These critiques, far from refuting Lacan's undeniable contribution to psychoanalysis and to the intellectual world, enrich and advance Lacanian discourse.

The book features four prominent French Lacanians: Juan-David Nasio, Joël Dor, Moustapha Safouan, and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. Essays by two of them, Nasio and Dor, appear here in English for the first time. Additionally, the volume features authors who have established and continue to guide Lacanian studies in the United States, and it introduces emerging voices in Lacanian studies.

David Pettigrew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. François Raffoul has taught French at Yale University and Philosophy at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Both co-translated The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, also published by SUNY Press.