Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis

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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. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Metaphysics and Hysteria: A Clinical Overview 1. Eisegesis of Hysteria in Lacan’s Teaching 2. The Phallus as Signifying Function 3. From Signifying Function to the Thing Function 4. The New Contradiction: Things and Subjects 5. Non-Psychoanalysis: The New Hysterical Question Part Two: Politics and Obsession 6. From Hysteria to Obsession: On the Question of Style 7. The Question of Repetition or the Repetition of a Question 8. From Obsession to Hysteria 9. The Good Work of the Slave 10. The Situation of Obsessional Politics 11. The Knot of Rupture Part Three: Numbers and Things 12. Making Things Count and Things Making Count 13. The Coup de Force of 3 14. Transcendental Barriers for Thinking Immanence; How to Make a Borromean Knot Out of a Single Piece of String Notes Subject Index Name Index