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Lacan and the Limits of Language (Hardcover)
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Lacan and the Limits of Language (Hardcover)
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This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of
Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the
question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a
revision of Lacan’s purported “ahistoricism,” and how does
the temporality of the subject in Lacan intersect with the
questions of temporality initiated by Heidegger and then developed
by contemporary French philosophy? The second question concerns the
status of the body in Lacanian theory, especially in connection
with emotion and affect, which Lacanian theory is commonly thought
to ignore, but which the concept of jouissance was developed to
address. Finally, it aims to explore, beyond the strict limits of
Lacanian theory, possible points of intersection between
psychoanalysis and other domains, including questions of race,
biology, and evolutionary theory. By stressing the question of
affect, the book shows how Lacan’s position cannot be reduced to
the structuralist models he nevertheless draws upon, and thus how
the problem of the body may be understood as a formation that marks
the limits of language. Exploring the anthropological category of
“race” within a broadly evolutionary perspective, it shows how
Lacan’s elaboration of the “imaginary” and the “symbolic”
might allow us to explain human physiological diversity without
reducing it to a cultural or linguistic construction or allowing
“race” to remain as a traditional biological category. Here
again the questions of history and temporality are paramount, and
open the possibility for a genuine dialogue between psychoanalysis
and biology. Finally, the book engages literary texts. Antigone,
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Hamlet, and even Wordsworth become the
muses who oblige psychoanalysis and philosophy to listen once again
to the provocations of poetry, which always disrupts our familiar
notions of time and memory, of history and bodily or affective
experience, and of subjectivity itself.
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