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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254804303321

Autore

Greenshields Will

Titolo

Writing the Structures of the Subject [[electronic resource] ] : Lacan and Topology / / by Will Greenshields

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

3-319-47533-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 290 p. 30 illus.)

Collana

The Palgrave Lacan Series, , 2946-420X

Disciplina

150

Soggetti

Psychology—Methodology

Psychiatry

Psychoanalysis

Philosophy of mind

Critical psychology

Topology

Psychological Methods

Philosophy of Mind

Critical Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dissolution and Déblayage -- The Topology of the Psychoanalytic Subject -- Topology and the Re-turn to Freud -- The Borromean Knot -- Conclusion: A New Imaginary.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan’s theories, as well as readings of texts that have been largely ignored, it provides a thorough critical interpretation of his work. Will Greenshields argues that Lacan achieved his most pedagogically clear and successful presentations of his most essential and notoriously complex concepts – such as structure, the subject and the real – through the deployment of topology. The book will help readers to better understand Lacan, and also those concepts that have become prevalent in various intellectual



discourses such as contemporary continental philosophy, politics and the study of ideology, and literary or cultural criticism.