Jacques Lacan, one of the most influential and controversial French
thinkers of the twentieth century, was a practicing and teaching
psychoanalyst in Paris, but his revolutionary seminars on Freud
reached out far beyond professional circles: they were
enthusiastically attended by writers, artists, scientists,
philosophers, and intellectuals from many disciplines.
Shoshana Felman elucidates the power and originality of Lacan's
work. She brilliantly analyzes Lacan's investigation of
psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process
of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's singular way of making Freud's
thought new again--and of thus enabling us to participate in the
very moment of intellectual struggle and insight--Felman shows how
this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary
thinking and has redefined insight as such. This book is a
groundbreaking statement not only on Lacan but on psychoanalysis in
general.
Felman argues that, contrary to popular opinion, Lacan's
preoccupation is with psychoanalytic practice rather than with
theory for its own sake. His true clinical originality consists not
in the incidental innovations that separate his theory from other
psychoanalytic schools, but in the insight he gives us into the
structural foundations of what is common to the practice of all
schools: the transference ation and the psychoanalytic dialogue. In
chapters on Poe's tale "The Purloined Letter"; Sophocles' Oedipus
plays, a case report by Melanie Klein, and Freud's writings, Felman
demonstrates Lacan's ediscovery of these texts as renewed and
renewable intellectual adventures and as parables of the
psychoanalytic encounter. The book exploresthese questions: How and
why does psychoanalytic practice work? What accounts for clinical
success? What did Freud learn from the literary Oedipus, and how
does Freud text take us beyond Oedipus? How does psychoanalysis
inform, and radically displace, our conception of what learning is
and of what reading is?
This book will be an intellectual event not only for clinicians
and literary critics, but also for the broader audience of readers
interested in contemporary thought.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
