Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences

Auteur

Raul Moncayo, PhD, is a supervising analyst and a founding member and past president of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA. Dr. Moncayo was also the training director of a large psychiatric clinic for many years in San Francisco. In 2022 he founded The Chinese American Center for Freudian and Lacanian Analysis and Research. He has been an adjunct faculty and a visiting professor both locally and abroad and is the author of 11 books.

Texte du rabat

Exploring how a Freudian-Lacanian approach to psychoanalysis intersects with social and cultural theory, Lacan, Jouissance and the Social Sciences demonstrates the significance of subjectivity as a concept for the study of leadership, social psychology, culture, and political theory.

Contenu

Introduction 1. The Primal Horde of Primates and early Humans 2. The Leader and the Group 3. Benevolent Tyranny and Love as a Motive for Repression 4. The Group 5. The Polis 6. Practice and Labor as Undivided Activity, Alienated Labor, and the Question of Surplus Value 7. The One and the Many 8. Equality, Inequality, Meritocracy, Excellence, Talent, Defect and Disability 9. Animal and Human Spirits or Jouissance in the Economy Appendix I. An outline of the History of the Symbolic Order or the History of Human Wisdom and Knowledge Appendix II. Theory of the Libido and Lacan's Three Jouissances: Freud, Jung, Bion, Lacan, and Moncayo