Oliver Harris

Lacan's Return to Antiquity

Between nature and the gods

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lacan's Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan's work. It 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138820388
• ISBN-10: 1138820385
• Artikelnr.: 44917090

Autorenporträt

Oliver Harris is a novelist and academic. He holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from UCL, and a PhD on classical myth and psychoanalysis from the London Consortium (Birkbeck). He has taught at Birkbeck, London Metropolitan University and Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Meaning of a Return 1. 'Surprised by truth': Socrates,
Plato and the Lacanian Seminar 2. The Myth of Sexual Reproduction 3.
Creation and Castration: Making Something out of Nothing 4. Exploiting
Tragedy: Psychoanalysis, Fate and Free Will 5. Unknown Pleasures: Orgasms
and Epistemology