The Lacanian Left : Essays on Psychoanalysis and Politics.

The Lacanian Left : Essays on Psychoanalysis and Politics.

In recent years psychoanalysis especially Lacanian theory has been gradually acknowledged as a vital resource in the ongoing re-orientation of contemporary political theory and analysis. Of particular note is that the work of Jacques Lacan is increasingly being used by major political philosophers a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stavrakakis, Yannis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981
Political psychology.
Psychoanalysis > Political aspects.
Political science > Philosophy.
Right and left (Political science)
Political psychology
Political science > Philosophy
Psychoanalysis > Political aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • COPYRIGHT; Contents; Bibliographical Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Locating the Lacanian Left; Part I Theory: Dialectics of Disavowal; 1 Antinomies of Creativity: Lacan and Castoriadis on Social Construction and the Political; 2 Laclau with Lacan on Jouissance: Negotiating the Affective Limits of Discourse; 3 Zizekian 'Perversions': The Lure of Antigone and the Fetishism of the Act; Excursus on Badiou; Part II Analysis: Dialectics of Enjoyment; 4 What Sticks? From Symbolic Power to Jouissance; 5 Enjoying the Nation: A Success Story?; 6 Lack of Passion: European Identity Revisited.

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