Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Reflections on Seminar XVII, sic vi

  • Author: Clemens, Justin; Grigg, Russell; Miller, Jacques-Alain; Verhaeghe, Paul; Ragland, Ellie
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Serie: [sic] Series
  • ISBN: 9780822337072
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822387602
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2006
  • Month: May
  • Pages: 344
  • DDC: 150.19/5
  • Language: English
This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues. Collecting important analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology is at once an introduction, critique, and extension of Lacan’s influential ideas.

The contributors examine Lacan’s theory of the four discourses, his critique of the Oedipus complex and the superego, the role of primal affects in political life, and his prophetic grasp of twenty-first-century developments. They take up these issues in detail, illuminating the Lacanian concepts with in-depth discussions of shame and guilt, literature and intimacy, femininity, perversion, authority and revolt, and the discourse of marketing and political rhetoric. Topics of more specific psychoanalytic interest include the role of objet a, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the status of knowledge, and the relation between psychoanalytic practices and the modern university.

Contributors. Geoff Boucher, Marie-Hélène Brousse, Justin Clemens, Mladen Dolar, Oliver Feltham, Russell Grigg, Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Dominique Hecq, Dominiek Hoens, Éric Laurent, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Jacques-Alain Miller, Ellie Ragland, Matthew Sharpe, Paul Verhaeghe, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic

  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Clinic of the Discourses
    • 1 Jacques-Alain Miller, On Shame
    • 2 Paul Verhaeghe, Enjoyment and Impossibility: Lacan’s Revision of the Oedipus Complex
    • 3 Russell Grigg, Beyond the Oedipus Complex
    • 4 Ellie Ragland, The Hysteric’s Truth
    • 5 Dominiek Hoens, Toward a New Perversion: Psychoanalysis
  • II. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
    • 6 Slavoj Žižek, Objet a in Social Links
    • 7 Mladen Dolar, Hegel as the Other Side of Psychoanalysis
    • 8 Alenka Zupancic, When Surplus Enjoyment Meets Surplus Value
    • 9 Oliver Feltham, Enjoy Your Stay: Structural Change in Seminar XVII
    • 10 Juliet Flower MacCannell, More Thoughts for the Times on Warand Death: The Discourse of Capitalism in Seminar XVII
    • 11 Dominique Hecq, The Impossible Power of Psychoanalysis
  • III. Discourses of Contemporary Life
    • 12 Éric Laurent, Symptom and Discourse
    • 13 Marie-Hélène Brousse, Common Markets and Segregation
    • 14 Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, The Intimate, the Extimate, and Psychoanalytic Discourse
    • 15 Geoff Boucher, Bureaucratic Speech Acts and the University Discourse: Lacan’s Theory of Modernity
    • 16 Matthew Sharpe, The ‘‘Revolution’’ in Advertising and University Discourse
  • Contributors
  • Index

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