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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf BF175.4.P45 EYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 158682 Available BK146298

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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