Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis

Dr Duane Rousselle, Trent University, Canada (Assistant Professor)

Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 July 2019
Pages
192
ISBN
9781350123212

Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis

Dr Duane Rousselle, Trent University, Canada (Assistant Professor)

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.

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