Jacques Lacan : a critical introduction / Martin Murray
Series: Modern European thinkersPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2016Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780745315904
- 0745315909
- 9780745315959
- 074531595X
- 150.195092 23
- BF109.L28 M87 2016
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BF109 .F74 W33 1995 Why Freud was wrong : sin, science, and psychoanalysis / | BF109 .F76 A5 1991 The crisis of psycho-analysis : essays on Freud, Marx, and social psychology / | BF109 .J8 A313 1965 Memories, dreams, reflections / | BF109 .L28 M87 2016 Jacques Lacan : a critical introduction / | BF109 .L43 G74 2006 Timothy Leary : a biography / | BF109 .S55 A32 1983 A matter of consequences : part three of an autobiography / | BF109 .S55 B46 1993 B.F. Skinner : a life / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index
Stopping and starting -- Sweet and sour -- Sense and nonsense -- Man and window -- I and I -- Fight and flight -- Word and wish -- Ending and beginning
"The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and were conveyed in a dense and abstract form. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence. His psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated too. He was famous and contentious in equal measure. Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan's key concepts, tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and (of course) psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan's professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became. The investigation uncovers a uniquely 'split' and contradictory figure whose life and work is both fascinating and erratic. The book offers a critical, biographical and historical introduction to Lacan that encourages a critical appreciation of his life and his thought."--Page 4 of cover
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