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The Decision of Desire (Paperback)
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The Decision of Desire (Paperback)
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A unique rereading of Lacan's theory of desire and its link to
masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance Of all of
Lacan's reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse,
the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings' relation
to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from
their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de
force that engages works by surrealists such as Andre Breton,
canonical writers like William Faulkner and James Joyce, and the
philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Baruch
Spinoza, The Decision of Desire is groundbreaking in its proposal
that each of us can seek out and reimagine our relation to the
infinite aporias of desire and thereby detach from its destructive,
repetitive forms in favor of joy and affirmation. Providing insight
to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing
psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with
the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the
quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. For if desire
is always already that of the Other and the unconscious, and also a
decision that escapes our consciousness of ourselves, how can we
assume an ethical relation to it that avoids the vicious circle of
disappointment, neurosis, and destruction? Such is the decision of
desire attempted within Silvia Lippi's profound development of a
contemporary psychoanalytic thought.
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