Verso Books - Lacan The Silent Partners - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations his work has been a major influence on political theory philosophy literature and the arts but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking so crucial to its proper understanding? In Lacan: The Silent Partners Slavoj i ek the maverick theorist and pre - eminent Lacan scholar has marshalled some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re - evaluation of Lacan's work. Focussing on Lacan's silent partners those who are the hidden inspiration to Lacanian theory they discuss his work in relation to the Pre - Socratics Diderot Hegel Nietzsche Schelling H lderlin Wagner Turgenev Kafka Henry James and Artaud. This major collection including three essays by i ek marks a new era in the study of this unsettling thinker breathing new life into his classic work.
Title: Lacan The Silent Partners
Brand: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675494
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 4/17/2006
Series: Wo Es War
Category: Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)