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Jacques the Sophist - Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Jacques the Sophist - Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis (Hardcover)
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Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's
negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on
words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it
an essential part of our world's cultural, political, and
philosophical repertoire. In this dazzling book, Barbara Cassin,
who has done more than anyone to reclaim a mode of thought that
traditional philosophy disavows, shows how the sophistical
tradition has survived in the work of psychoanalysis. In a highly
original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan,
together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how
psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations
of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations,
jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst,
like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency
to reshape truth. This witty, brilliant tour de force celebrates
how psychoanalysts have become our culture's key dissidents and
register, in Lacan's words, "the presence of the sophist in our
time."
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