Lacan and the concept of the 'Real' / created by Tom Eyers.

By:

Eyers, Tom [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: ix, 216 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781349439164

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

BF175.4.P45 EYE

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction : Approaching the Real The Imaginary and the Real The Symbolic and the Real Space and the Real Psychopathology and the Real Lacanian Materialism? Conclusion

Summary: Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou deriving profound philosophical and political consequences from what is the most difficult of Lacan's ideas. This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Acknowledgements
Introduction : Approaching the Real
The Imaginary and the Real
The Symbolic and the Real
Space and the Real
Psychopathology and the Real
Lacanian Materialism?
Conclusion

Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou deriving profound philosophical and political consequences from what is the most difficult of Lacan's ideas. This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times

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