Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure
Topology and language in psychoanalysis
- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, and which operate differently at different logical moments or stages of formation. Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure offers us a reading of the major concepts of Lacan in terms of his later topological theory and aims to show how this was always a concern for Lacan and not only an issue in the last seminars.
Ellie Ragland discusses how various stages of formation can be uncovered topologically within language itself, and operate to place certain properties – fantasy, the drive, jouissance, discourse and ethics in language itself. In this way she explores not only how language actually works in tandem with the properties, but also gives a different idea of what knowledge actually is and what implications that may have for reimagining and reworking differential/diagnostic structures.
Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure is a compelling exponent of the innovative approaches Lacan takes to rethinking what psychoanalysis is and what it can do to enlighten psychoanalysts and treat patients. It will be essential reading to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists training graduate students in the fields of film, literary, gender and cultural studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Note on references
- Introduction
- 1 The logic of structure in Lacan: the structure of the subject
- 2 Some reflections on Lacan’s theory of discourse structures as set out in “To Jakobson”
- 3 The structure of Lacan’s object a
- 4 The structure of the drives: where body and mind join
- 5 The topological dimension of Lacanian optics
- 6 The practice of the letter and topological structure
- 7 Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, read in relation to Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
- Conclusion
- Index