Vital Signs offers a radical new understanding of the role psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault among others the author bridges the gap between theory and clinical practice.
Vital Signs offers a radical new understanding of the role psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on Lacan, Kristeva and Foucau...
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...
This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and mem...
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...
This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and mem...
