New Remarks on the Passage to the Act

Jean Allouch

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 March 2025
Pages
164
ISBN
9781032823607

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act

Jean Allouch

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence.

Jean Allouch examines key events - the crimes of the Papin sisters, Lacan's case of Aimee and the murder of Helene Rytmann by Louis Althusser - and unpacks the concept of the 'passage to the act'. The book assesses these classic cases with reference to new research and discusses Marguerite Duras's novel L'Amante Anglaise. The book also considers modern acts of terrorism.

New Remarks on the Passages to the Act will be of great interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalysis, Lacanian studies, sociology, cultural studies, and philosophy, and to Lacanian analysts in practice and in training.

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