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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822631703321

Autore

Badiou Alain

Titolo

Jacques lacan, past and present : a dialogue / / Alain Badiou and Elisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by Jason E. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53535-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (109 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/5092

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword: "I am counting on the tourbillon": On the Late Lacan / Smith, Jason E. -- Preface -- 1. ONE MASTER, TWO ENCOUNTERS -- 2. THINKING DISORDER -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the French analytic world since Lacan's death-critiquing, for example, the link (or lack thereof) between politics and psychoanalysis in Lacan's work. Their exchange reinvigorates how the the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker is perceived.