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"Vital Signs" offers a radical new understanding of the role of
psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on
the work of Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, and lesser-known thinkers
Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni and Catherine Millot, Shepherdson argues
that we have misinterpreted the nature/culture distinction in
relation to psychoanalysis. He shows how the constitution of
subject, and the phenomenon of the body, are irreducible to this
distinction, and argues that the reception of French psychoanalysis
has been wrongly governed by the debate between biological models
and symbolic theories of social construction. Shepherdson
approaches this dilemma through a series of specific topics, using
both theoretical texts and clinical material. The topics discussed
(transsexualism, anorexia, maternity, and femininity), allow the
author to bridge the gulf between theory and clinical practice, and
to distinguish psychoanalysis from its disciplinary neighbors in
contemporary social theory. "Vital Signs" will be of interest to
philosophers, psychoanalysts, and those involved in literary and
cultural studies.
Vital Signs offers a radical new understanding of the role of psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on the work of Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, and lesser-known thinkers Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni and Catherine Millot, Shepherdson argues that we have misinterpreted the nature/culture distinction in relation to psychoanalysis.
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.
In this decisive explication, Roberto Harari skillfully explores
one of the least examined aspects of Lacan's work, his "Seminar on
Anxiety." Lacan's seminar situates with rigor, precision, and a
wealth of clinical underpinnings what Lacan for a time called his
"invention." Harari's Introduction allows readers to see that this
work of Lacan is not merely of academic interest, but is a useful
tool in working on the delineation of the characteristics of a
Lacanian psychoanalytical clinic.
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Supposing the Subject (Paperback, New)
Joan Copjec; Contributions by Charles Shepherdson, Elizabeth Grosz, Etienne Balibar, Homi Bhabha, …
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A collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics.
Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the
subject as understood by Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and consider
contemporary ideas that revive the subject, including queer theory
and national identity. Contributors include Parveen Adams, Etienne
Balibar, Homi Bhabha, Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec, Juliet Flower
MacCannell, Charles Shepardson, Mikkei Borch-Jacobsen, Elizabeth
Grosz and Miaden Dolar.
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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