The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-73
by Jacques Lacan
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Encore: On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits Of Love And Knowledge 1972-1973)
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Often controversial, always inspired, Jacques Lacan here weighs theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such thinkers as Aristotle, Marx, and Freud. He leads us through mathematics, philosophy, religion, and, naturally, psychoanalysis into an entirely new way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives. Long anticipated by English-speaking readers, this annotated translation presents Lacan's most sophisticated work on love and show more desire. show lessTags
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I'm glad I read through Reading Seminars I and II before delving into Lacan's first seminar. Mostly, it was a helpful grounding in his understanding of Freud's work with some lively discussion included. As with all primary source Lacan, it feels foolhardy to offer much of a review as it would imply a level of understanding that would be misleading. However, I will say the discussion on Augustine and language was a delightful surprise.
Lacan's seminar on psychosis is a helpful introductory primary text (I received this advice from Bruce Fink in the back of a Clinical Introduction to Lacan). Nevertheless I did take my time with it as there is a predictable density to some of the sections. I found extremely helpful explications of metaphor and metonomy as well.
If you like Lacan.....well, there you go....
I do feel the need to write this addendum (around half a year after adding this review), whereas I must say that if you can understand what goes on inside his head, it does provide an interesting discourse in respect to philosophers such as Freud, Hegel, Žižek, and others.
I do feel the need to write this addendum (around half a year after adding this review), whereas I must say that if you can understand what goes on inside his head, it does provide an interesting discourse in respect to philosophers such as Freud, Hegel, Žižek, and others.
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Jacques Lacan was born into an upper-middle-class Parisian family. He received psychiatric and psychoanalytic training, and his clinical training began in 1927. His doctoral thesis, "On Paranoia and Its Relation to Personality," already indicated an original thinker; in it he tried to show that no physiological phenomenon could be adequately show more understood without taking into account the entire personality, including its engagement with a social milieu. Practicing in France, Lacan led a "back to Freud" movement in the most literal sense, at a time when others were trying to interpret Sigmund Freud (see also Vol. 3) broadly. He emphasized the role of the image and the role of milieu in personality organization. Seeking to reinterpret Freud's theories in terms of structural linguistics, Lacan believed that Freud's greatest insight was his understanding of the "talking cure" as revelatory of the unconscious. By taking Freud literally, Lacan led a psychoanalytic movement that evolved into a very specific school of interpretation. Often embroiled in controversy, in the 1950s he opposed the standardization of training techniques, the classification of psychoanalysis as a medical treatment, and the then emerging school of ego psychology. Although general readers may find Lacan difficult to read, his works are provocative and rewarding. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-73
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- This is the 20th volume in the series of Jacques Lacan's Seminars, titled "On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge." Please do not combine with "Feminine sexuality : Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne", a... (show all) collection of essays by Jacques Lacan and others of the Freudian school, on the subject of feminine sexuality.
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- 150.195 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Emotions, Relationships, & Family Theory And Instruction Systems, schools, viewpoints Psychoanalytic systems
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- BF173 .L14613 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Psychoanalysis
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