Irrepressible Truth On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’ /

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, e...

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Main Author: Johnston, Adrian. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:The Palgrave Lacan Series
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57514-8
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Returning to the Vienna of Freud
  • 1. Situation in Time and Place of this Exercise
  • 2. The Adversary
  • 3. The Thing Speaks Itself
  • 4. Parade
  • 5. The Thing’s Order
  • 6. Resistance to the Resisters
  • 7. Interlude
  • 8. The other’s Discourse
  • 9. Imaginary Passion
  • 10. Analytic Action
  • 11. The Locus of Speech
  • 12. Symbolic Debt
  • 13. The Training of Analysts to Come
  • Conclusion: Taking it to the Dogs.