Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis

ISBN-13: 9781474408295 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str.

Bostjan Nedoh; Andreja Zevnik

Opis

It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart.
This volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective thoughts. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a 'disjunctive synthesis', which acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. For an Another Deleuze-Lacan Encounter; 2. Reciprocal Portrait of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze; 3. Does the Body without Organs Have Any Sex At All? Lacan and Deleuze on Perversion and Sexual Difference; 4. Gnomology: Deleuze’s Phobias and the Line of Flight between Speech and the Body; 5. Lacan, Deleuze and the Politics of the Face; 6. Denkwunderkeiten: On Deleuze, Schreber, and Freud; 7. Snark, Jabberwock, Poord’jeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian School on the Names-of-the-Father; 8. Baroque Structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan, and the Critique of Linguistics; 9. Exalted Obscenity and the Lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze, and the Baroque; 10. The Death Drive; 11. Repetition and Difference: Žižek, Deleuze, and Lacanian Drives; 12. Lacan, Deleuze, and the Consequences of Formalism.