Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy / Justin Clemens.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780748678945
  • 9780748678952
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF175.4.P45 C54 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy -- 1. Listening or Dispensing? Sigmund Freud on Drugs -- 2. Love as Ontology; or, Psychoanalysis against Philosophy -- 3. Revolution or Subversion? Jacques Lacan on Slavery -- 4. Messianism or Melancholia? Giorgio Agamben on Inaction -- 5. The Slave, The Fable -- 6. Torture, Psychoanalysis and Beyond -- 7. Man is a Swarm Animal -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death - as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such mattersPsychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise psychoanalysis as an 'antiphilosophy', that is, as a practice that issues the strongest possible challenges to thought. Justin Clemens takes up the challenge of this denomination here, by re-examining a series of crucial psychoanalytic themes: addiction, fanaticism, love, slavery and torture. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Badiou, Agamben and others, Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy offers a radical reconstruction of the operations and import of key psychoanalytic concepts and a renewed sense of the indispensable powers of psychoanalysis for today.About the AuthorJustin Clemens' Academia.edu profileReviews'Justin Clemens interviewed on Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy', published in Society and Space - Environment and Planning D'Rethinking and reconstructing psychoanalysis', published in The AgeMoreJustin Clemens applies the page 99 test to Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy in the Page 99 Test blog"
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748678952

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy -- 1. Listening or Dispensing? Sigmund Freud on Drugs -- 2. Love as Ontology; or, Psychoanalysis against Philosophy -- 3. Revolution or Subversion? Jacques Lacan on Slavery -- 4. Messianism or Melancholia? Giorgio Agamben on Inaction -- 5. The Slave, The Fable -- 6. Torture, Psychoanalysis and Beyond -- 7. Man is a Swarm Animal -- Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death - as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such mattersPsychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise psychoanalysis as an 'antiphilosophy', that is, as a practice that issues the strongest possible challenges to thought. Justin Clemens takes up the challenge of this denomination here, by re-examining a series of crucial psychoanalytic themes: addiction, fanaticism, love, slavery and torture. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Badiou, Agamben and others, Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy offers a radical reconstruction of the operations and import of key psychoanalytic concepts and a renewed sense of the indispensable powers of psychoanalysis for today.About the AuthorJustin Clemens' Academia.edu profileReviews'Justin Clemens interviewed on Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy', published in Society and Space - Environment and Planning D'Rethinking and reconstructing psychoanalysis', published in The AgeMoreJustin Clemens applies the page 99 test to Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy in the Page 99 Test blog"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)