Tag: Jacques Lacan
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Beckett, Lacan, and the Gaze
The book advances the claim that Beckett’s visual universe can be described neither through a general theory of “modernist perception” nor through a simple psychoanalytic allegory of seeing, but only by reconstructing the specific way in which the gaze functions as an impersonal, structuring dimension where subject and world fail to meet. In forming a…
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Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice
Brown’s Beckett, Lacan and the Voice stakes its claim on a very precise terrain: it proposes that Beckett’s entire œuvre can be re-read if one takes seriously the Lacanian thesis that the voice is a specific psychoanalytic object—neither pure sound nor mere vehicle of meaning, but the residue of language that both grounds and unravels…
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Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language stakes its claim by demonstrating, with didactic patience and analytic precision, how Lacan’s structural re-founding of psychoanalysis can be reconstructed from within the field that grounds it: the speaking subject’s formations of the unconscious as they are anchored in language and staged in…
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Lacan and Other Heresies: Lacanian Pscyhoanalytical Writings
The volume’s distinctive contribution lies in its rigorous effort to reinscribe Lacanian psychoanalysis within a living practice of collective invention, rather than a doctrine of settled theses. Framed by the Freudian School of Melbourne’s long experiment with institutional forms proper to psychoanalysis and catalyzed by the Melbourne seminars of the Belgian analyst Christian Fierens, the…
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Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society
The volume stakes a precise claim: by reconstructing Lacan’s concept of discourse across clinical, social, and cultural registers, it offers a model in which language and what exceeds language are locked in a structured reciprocity—so that subjects are formed in discourse and yet sustain modalities of resistance through it. The distinctive contribution lies in formalizing…
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Lacan and Language: A Reader’s Guide to Écrits
This book stands as an extraordinarily rigorous and lucidly subtle instrument designed to guide any serious reader through the labyrinthine terrain that constitutes Jacques Lacan’s Écrits. Its authors, John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, address themselves to a daunting intellectual challenge: to bring into focus a complex variety of thought in which Jacques Lacan’s…
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