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Jacques Lacan (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,092
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Jacques Lacan (Hardcover): E Roudinesco

Jacques Lacan (Hardcover)

E Roudinesco

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An exhaustive, partisan, and clinical treatment of the psychoanalyst who became one of France's most famous intellectuals by flamboyantly combining Freudianism, linguistics, and structuralism. Roudinesco, of Paris's Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, suggests reading this work as the third volume in her History of Psychoanalysis in France; this intellectual biography shares with her earlier volumes a broad sweep and authoritative dissertation-like style, as she tracks Lacan's orbits among the era's great minds and squabbling psychoanalytic schools. Despite her nearly smothering respect for Lacan, she has discovered some unpleasant revelations and embarrassing facts. It's no surprise that Lacan - whose version of the Oedipal struggle is labeled le nom du pere (the name-of-the-father, or, punningly, the no-of-the-father) - had a father who was mostly absent. But it is startling to discover that the married Lacan fathered an illegitimate daughter with Georges Bataille's ex-wife and carried on a double life with his two families. If Lacan's personal life was complicated by his romantic affairs, his intellectual life was positively profligate, with ties to the structuralist anthropologist Levi-Strauss, the existentialist Heidegger, the decadent Bataille, the linguist Roman Jakobson, and the Marxist Louis Althusser (later declared criminally insane). Roudinesco also uncovers Lacan's early intellectual influences, including his brief infatuation with Spinoza and his fruitful encounter with Salvador Dali's "paranoia-critical method." Roudinesco capably traces how this network of intellectual borrowings and Lacan's reworkings of Freud eventually led him to set up his own renegade school of psychoanalysis in Paris. Heidegger, himself no paragon of virture or readability, remarked after reading Lacan's often dizzying magnum opus, Ecrits, that "the psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist." An encyclopedic biography most likely to appeal to experts, but enlivened by portraits of Lacan's mercurial personality and behavior. (Kirkus Reviews)
Elisabeth Roudinesco gives us a life Balzacian in its sweep: the story of a young man from the provinces determined to leave his family fortune and its old-fashioned values behind; the young doctor in Paris who set out to reinvent clinical psychotherapy and ended up transforming fundamental notions of the self, sexuality and the culture that shapes it all.

Roudinesco follows the development of Lacan's career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis from its roots in biology and neurology to a powerful critical tool that resonated in fields ranging from literary theory to feminist politics.

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Imprint: Polity Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 1997
First published: June 1997
Authors: E Roudinesco
Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 44mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-1523-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 0-7456-1523-6
Barcode: 9780745615233

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