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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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The Singularity of Being
The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the \"subject\" (who comes into existence as a result of symbolic prohibition) or the \"person\" (who is aligned with the narcissistic conceits of the imaginary), the singular self emerges in response to a galvanizing directive arising from the real. This directive carries the force of an obligation that cannot be resisted and that summons the individual to a \"character\" beyond his or her social investments. Consequently, singularity expresses something about the individual's non-negotiable distinctiveness, eccentricity, or idiosyncrasy at the same time it prevents both symbolic and imaginary closure. It opens to layers of rebelliousness, indicating that there are components of human life exceeding the realm of normative sociality. Written with an unusual blend of rigor and clarity, The Singularity of Being combines incisive readings of Lacan with the best insights of recent Lacanian theory to reach beyond the dogmas of the field. Moving from what, thanks in part to Slavoj Zizek, has come to be known as the \"ethics of the act\" to a nuanced interpretation of Lacan's \"ethics of sublimation,\" the book offers a sweeping overview of Lacan's thought while making an original contribution to contemporary theory and ethics. Aimed at specialists and nonspecialists alike, the book manages to educate at the same time as it intervenes in current debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, creativity, the self-other relationship, and effective political and ethical action. By focusing on the Lacanian real, Ruti honors the uniqueness of subjective experience without losing sight of the social and intersubjective components of human life.
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Music and the Crises of the Modern Subject
Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic Order, and the Real), Klein explores how we understand music as both an artistic form created by \"the subject\" and an artistic expression of a culture that imposes its history on this modern subject. By creatively navigating from critical theory to music, film, fiction, and back to music, Klein distills the kinds of meaning that we have been missing when we perform, listen to, think about, and write about music without the insights of Lacan and others into formulations of modern subjectivity.
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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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A Search for Clarity
In A Search for Clarity , Jean-Claude Milner argues that
although Jacques Lacan's writing is notoriously obscure his oeuvre
is entirely clear. In a discussion that considers the difference
between the esoteric and exoteric works of Plato and Aristotle,
Milner argues that Lacan's oeuvre is to be found in his published
writings alone, not his transcribed seminars, and that these
published writings contain his official doctrine. Thus, Lacan's
oeuvre is already complete, even though many of his seminars remain
unpublished.
According to Milner, Lacan's fundamental idea is that the
subject psychoanalysis works on is the subject of science. Milner
suggests that this is a supplement to Alexandre Koyré's and
Alexandre Kojève's accounts of modern science, for which
mathematization and a break from the ancient episteme were key.
A Search for Clarity is the definitive statement on how
Lacan viewed the relationship between psychoanalysis and science,
and on how Lacan's thinking evolved as he struggled to draw out the
consequences of the equation he posited between psychoanalysis and
science. Milner's work on Lacan has been essential reading in
French for decades. This English translation will make his
illuminating work accessible to a broader audience.
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