Tag: lacan
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The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
Marco Máximo Balzarini’s The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud isolates with unusual precision the point at which two powerful explanatory regimes—neurobiological description and psychoanalytic articulation—cease to translate into one another and nevertheless cannot stop addressing the same phenomena. Its distinctive contribution is to formalize that impasse as a productive constraint on…
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The Seminars of Jacques Lacan
The Seminars of Jacques Lacan are an organized experiment in epistemic restraint and conceptual invention, a multi-decadal laboratory where psychoanalysis is made to answer for its own concepts by submitting them to the exigencies of speech, structure, and act. Their distinctive contribution is a method for holding the Freudian field at the point of maximal…
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Lacan and the Limits of Language
Lacan and the Limits of Language by Charles Shepherdson is an extraordinarily rigorous analysis of the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and the life sciences, a painstakingly elaborate exploration that refuses the comfort of established disciplinary boundaries and invites the reader to confront, with fearless intellectual candor, the fundamental questions that arise when language meets…
Simon Gros 