Lacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence

Auteur

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania

Texte du rabat

This book explores the importance of Lacan's role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than becoming obsolescent

Contenu

Introduction. Irritations 1. Psychoanalysis as Irritant Translation 2. Freud's Irritations 3. Affects and their vicissitudes 4. Cruor, or the Cruel Fiction of Psychoanalysis 5. Irritating Kant with Sade, Irritating Sade with Kant 6. Lacan's Quarrel with Nancy and Posthumous Victory 7. "Perpetual Translation Made Language": Lacan's response to Deconstruction in "Lituraterre." Conclusion. "I am a poem, not a poet": Lacan's Autopoiesis