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Lacan in Public
Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions
to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and
that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s
entire body of work.
Scholars typically cite Jacques
Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire,
affect, politics, and pleasure. And though Lacan explicitly
contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field of
rhetoric, rhetoricians have been hesitant to embrace the French
thinker both because his writing is difficult and because
Lacan’s conception of rhetoric runs counter to the American
traditions of rhetoric in composition and communication studies.
Lacan’s conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues
in
Lacan in Public , upsets and extends the received wisdom
of American rhetorical studies—that rhetoric is a science,
rather than an art; that rhetoric is predicated not on the
reciprocal exchange of meanings, but rather on the impossibility
of such an exchange; and that rhetoric never achieves a
correspondence with the real-world circumstances it attempts to
describe. As Lundberg shows, Lacan’s work speaks directly
to conversations at the center of current rhetorical scholarship,
including debates regarding the nature of the public and public
discourses, the materiality of rhetoric and agency, and the
contours of a theory of persuasion.
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The Lacanian Left
An exploration of a new concept in critical political theory: the Lacanian Left. This is a field of theoretical and political interventions sharing a common interest in discussing the relevance of Lacanianism and psychoanalysis for contemporary theory.
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Loving Lacan: The Story of an Intellectual Guru Whose Gnomic Utterances Took the Term Intellectual Terrorist to New Levels
Lacan joins the line of charismatic doctors who, throughout history, have beguiled their followers as a near-magical figure, going on to create catastrophe at every level, not least for their patients, in order to maintain their dominance. De Clerambault ran a forensic hospital but was not particularly attached to the patients, regarding them more as source material for his research. On 16 November 1934, after two unsuccessful operations for cataracts, he committed suicide by seating himself in front of his camera and shooting himself as the shutter went off, a morbid prelude to the current selfie fashion. Any suggestion that his wild ideas would benefit from more contact with actual psychotics were waved aside with vague reference to his cases.
Journal Article
Lacan and the nonhuman
Initiating the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman - the authors question where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of a nonanthropoentric universe. In doing so they unravel a less-than-human theory of the subject; explore implications of Lacanian teachings in relation to the environment, freedom, and biopolitics; and investigate the subjective enjoyments of and anxieties over nonhumans in literature, film and digital media.
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Lacan and Cassirer
The theories on symbolization of the Neo-Kantian philosopher Ernst Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan are described and compared. Their common conception of man as an animal symbolicum has been applied to a number of topics within the humanities (language, ethics, mental disorder) to offer proof for its fruitfulness.
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Lacan—The Unconscious Reinvented
Has Jacques Lacan's impact on psychoanalysis really been assessed? His formulation that the Freudian unconscious is \"structured like a language\" is well-known, but this was only the beginning. There was then the radically new thesis of the \"real unconscious\". Why this step? Searching for the Ariadne's thread that runs throughout Lacan's ever-evolving teaching, this book illuminates the questions implicit in each step, and sheds new light on his revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts. In tracing these, the author brings out their consequences for the clinic, and in particular, for the subject, for symptoms, for affects, and for the aims of treatment itself. The last section of the book examines the political import of these developments. If many analysts since Freud have dreamt of reinventing psychoanalysis, the author shows the ways in which Lacan succeeded in this reinvention.
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