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Lacan and the Limits of Language (Paperback)
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Lacan and the Limits of Language (Paperback)
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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 Lacanas purported aahistoricism, a 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 Lacanas 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
aracea within a broadly evolutionary perspective, it shows how
Lacanas elaboration of the aimaginarya and the asymbolica might
allow us to explain human physiological diversity without reducing
it to a cultural or linguistic construction or allowing aracea 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, Ovidas
Metamorphoses, Hamlet, and even Wordsworth becomethe 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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