1st Edition

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

By Bogdan Wolf Copyright 2016
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and it is a praxis. 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 - More Lacanian Coordinates - 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.

    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)

    Biography

    Bogdan Wolf