LEADER 04404oam 2200685I 450 001 9910831874103321 005 20240501073113.0 010 $a1-317-59058-9 010 $a1-315-74392-2 010 $a1-317-59057-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315743929 035 $a(CKB)3710000000820479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16344769 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14917350 035 $a(PQKB)21129990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4626857 035 $a(OCoLC)957777281 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28954 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000820479 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLacan's return to antiquity $ebetween nature and the gods /$fOliver Harris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2017 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (184 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-138-82038-5 311 $a1-138-82037-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. 'Surprised by truth' : Socrates, Plato and the Lacanian seminar -- 2. The myth of sexual reproduction -- 3. Creating and castration : making something out of nothing -- 4. Exploiting tragedy : psychoanalysis, fate and free will -- 5. Unknown pleasures : orgasms and epistemology. 330 $aLacan?s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan?s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a twentieth-century theory of psychology? In Lacan?s case, the issue has an additional edge, for he employs antiquity to demonstrate what is radically new about psychoanalysis. It is a tool with which to convey the revolutionary power of Freud?s ideas by digging down to the philosophical questions beneath them. It is through these questions that Lacan allies psychoanalysis with the pioneering intellectual developments of his time in anthropology, philosophy, art and literature. Harris begins by considering the role of Plato and Socrates in Lacan?s conflicted thoughts on teaching, writing and the process of becoming an intellectual icon. In doing so, he provides a way into considering the uniquely challenging nature of the Lacanian texts themselves, and the live performances behind them. Two central chapters explore when and why myth is drawn upon in psychoanalysis, its threat to the discipline?s scientific aspirations, and Lacan?s embrace of its expressive potential. The final chapters explore Lacan?s defence of tragedy and his return to Ovidian themes. These include the unwitting voyeurism of Actaeon, and the fate of Narcissus, a figure of tragic metamorphosis that Freud places at the heart of infantile development. Lacan?s Return to Antiquity brings to Lacan studies the close reading and cross-disciplinary research that has proved fruitful in understanding Freud?s invention of psychoanalysis. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and advanced students studying in the field, being of particular value to those interested in the roots of Lacanian concepts, the evolution of his thought, and the cultural context of his work. What emerges is a more nuanced, self-critical figure, a corrective to the reputation for dogmatism and obscurity that Lacan has attracted. In the process, new light is thrown on enduring controversies, from Lacan?s pronouncements on feminine sexuality to the opaque drama of the seminars themselves. 606 $aPsychoanalysis and philosophy 606 $aCivilization, Classical 610 $adeath 610 $adrive 610 $alacans 610 $amirror 610 $apleasure 610 $aprinciple 610 $aseminar 610 $astage 610 $avii 610 $axvii 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and philosophy. 615 0$aCivilization, Classical. 676 $a150.19/5092 676 $a150.195092 700 $aHarris$b Oliver$f1978-,$01744736 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831874103321 996 $aLacan's return to antiquity$94174893 997 $aUNINA