More Lacanian Coordinates: On Love, Psychoanalytic Clinic, and the Ends of Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781782202813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Bogdan Wolf

Opis

Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and it is a praxis. More Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan's teaching, from the logic of the signifier and the Lacanian subject, to the drive and object a, qua object a, the paradoxes of guilt, and finally to the desire of the Other, love, and femininity. Volume One explores the points of Lacanian orientation that lead us to the particularity of the subject, and considers whether we find them not solely in the discourse of the universal, to which religion, science and philosophy testify, but also in the analytic experience itself.

Volume Two opens with the question of love that for Lacan forms a discourse of fragments and letters addressed to the one, which circumscribe the nonexistence of the sexual relation. Further, Lacan situates love in relation to knowledge, making ignorance, alongside love and hatred, the third passion. Lacanian discourse, as a social bond of speaking beings in love, can be considered between two passions: to want to know and to want not to know. Each position has the real impact on the subject, whether neurotic or psychotic, leading to produce different outcomes and solutions.

Spis treści

Preface , On love and the woman that does not exist: an introduction , Antigone, the beautiful, or beyond death in the analytic experience , On obsessional neurosis: from Freud to Lacan and back , On psychosis: how Joyce constructed his body , Knowledge in discourse or fourfold ignorance , To conclude—the ends of analysis in the teaching of Lacan (1)

O autorze

Bogdan Wolf