Cogito and the Unconscious

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Herausgeber: Zizek, Slavoj

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cartesian cogito - the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am" - is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. Cogito and the Unconscious explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and shows that psychoanalyses can render visible a constitutive madness within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes obsessional neurosis characterized by "If I stop thinking, I will cease to exist".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 1998
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780822320838
• ISBN-10: 0822320835
• Artikelnr.: 40259293

Autorenporträt

Slavoj iek, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cogito as Shibboleth 1 Part I. Cogito as a Freudian Concept 1. Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious / Mladen Dolar 11 2. The Subject of the Law / Alenka Zupan
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41 3. Four Discourses, Four Subjects / Slavoj iek 74 Part II. Cogito's Body 4. The Case of Polyphemus, or, a Monster and Its Mother / Alain Grosrichard 117 5. Malebranche's Occasionalism, or, Philosophy in the Garden of Eden / Miran Boovi
149 6. The Silence of the Feminine Jouissance / Renata Salecl 175 Part III. 7. A Sovereign's Anatomy: The Antique in Bataille's Modernity and Its Impact on His Political Thought / Marc de Kessel 199 8. Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology? / Robert Pfaller 225 9. The Cartesian Subject versus the Cartesian Theater / Slavoj iek 247 Notes on Contributors 275 Index 277