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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254795903321

Autore

Johnston Adrian

Titolo

Irrepressible Truth : On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’ / / by Adrian Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-57514-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 257 p.)

Collana

The Palgrave Lacan Series, , 2946-420X

Disciplina

150

Soggetti

Psychology—Methodology

Psychoanalysis

Philosophy of mind

Self

Social psychology

Philosophy, Ancient

Psychological Methods

Philosophy of the Self

Social Psychology

Ancient Philosophy / Classical Philosophy

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings.