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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785244203321

Autore

Zafiropoulos Markos

Titolo

Lacan and Levi-Strauss, or, The return to Freud (1951-1957) / / Markos Zafiropoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-91549-7

0-429-90126-7

0-429-47649-3

1-282-78007-7

9786612780073

1-84940-797-5

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

CFAR

Disciplina

150.19/5092

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; Copyright; NOTE TO THE READER AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The transcendence of the imaginary by the symbolic or the mirror stage and the symbolic function; CHAPTER TWO: The subject receives from the Other his own message in an inverted form: An investigation; CHAPTER THREE: The name of the father, psychosis and phobia; CONCLUSION; POSTLUDE; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's theories of the symbolic function, of the power of language, of the role of the father and even of the unconscious itself owe a major debt to Levi-Strauss.Lacan and Le