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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337663603321

Autore

Tombras Christos

Titolo

Discourse Ontology [[electronic resource] ] : Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan / / by Christos Tombras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-13662-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Collana

The Palgrave Lacan Series, , 2946-420X

Disciplina

150.195092

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Self

Psychoanalysis

Counseling

Clinical psychology

Ontology

Philosophy of the Self

Counseling Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Heidegger’s question of being -- Chapter 3: A critique of science and psychoanalysis -- Chapter 4: Back to Freud, and beyond -- Chapter 5: Lacanian metapsychology -- Chapter 6: An Ontology from Discourse -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Psychoanalysis as a cause.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging between the two is possible, and lays the foundations of that bridge, starting with Heidegger and proceeding through the work of Lacan. After presenting an overview of key concepts of Heidegger’s ontology, Tombras sets out an incisive critique of modern science and psychoanalysis, and argues that psychoanalytic theory is vulnerable to



this critique. The response comes from Lacan’s re-reading and recasting of fundamental Freudian insights, and his robust post-Freudian metapsychology. A broad discussion of Lacan’s work follows, which reveals its rupture with traditional philosophy, and demonstrates how it builds on and then reaches beyond Heidegger’s critique. This book is informed by the terminology, insights, concepts, hypotheses, and conclusions of both Heidegger and Lacan. It discusses time and the body in jouissance; the emergence of the divided subject and signifierness; truth, agency and the event; and being and mathematical formalisation. Crucially, Tombras describes the ontological recursive construction of a shared ontic world and discusses the limits and historicity of this world. This book opens up new pathways in the study of ontology and epistemology and will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy. Christos Tombras is a supervising psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, practicing in London, UK. Dr. Tombras is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK, and lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups. His main research interest is in a dialogue between continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has published in both English and Greek.