Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)

Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) "opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed.__Lacanian Realism__does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Ranci�re, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real.__Lacanian Realism__is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy. Cover page 1 Halftitle page 2 Series page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Tables 10 Foreword 11 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 14 Part One Metaphysics and Hysteria: A Clinical Overview 18 1 Eisegesis of Hysteria in Lacan’s Teaching 20 2 The Phallus as Signifying Function 32 3 From Signifying Function to the Thing Function 40 4 The New Contradiction: Things and Subjects 50 5 Non-Psychoanalysis: The New Hysterical Question 56 Part Two Politics and Obsession 68 6 From Hysteria to Obsession: On the Question of Style 70 7 The Question of Repetition or the Repetition of a Question 78 8 From Obsession to Hysteria 86 9 The Good Work of the Slave 94 10 The Situation of Obsessional Politics 102 11 The Knot of Rupture 124 Part Three Numbers and Things 134 12 Making Things Count and Things Making Count 136 13 The Coup de Force of 3 154 14 Transcendental Barriers for Thinking Immanence; How to Make a Borromean Knot Out of a Single Piece of String 168 Notes 186 Subject Index 210 A 210 B 210 C 210 D 211 E 211 F 211 G 211 H 211 I 212 J 212 L 212 M 212 N 212 O 213 P 213 S 214 T 215 U 215 V 215 W 215 Z 215 Name Index 216 A 216 B 216 C 216 D 216 E 216 F 216 G 216 H 216 I 216 J 216 K 216 L 216 M 217 N 217 P 217 R 217 S 217 V 217 W 217 Z 217 "Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) "opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Rancière, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) "opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Ranci�re, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy. Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) "opened up a new path in the history of philosophy." And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed. Lacanian Realism does just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Ranciere, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. Lacanian Realism is an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy