Lacan in America (Lacanian Clinical Field) (repost)
Lacan in America (Lacanian Clinical Field) by Jean-Michel Rabate
English | 2000 | ISBN 1892746638 | 464 pages | PDF OCR | 5,3 MB
English | 2000 | ISBN 1892746638 | 464 pages | PDF OCR | 5,3 MB
This interdisciplinary compilation of essays is a welcome tonic for the “jet lag” or cultural gap between Lacanian discourse's warm reception in Latin countries and the resistance Lacanian clinical applications have met with in the Anglophone world.
Lacan in America illuminates important and dynamic debates within a cultural context that Lacan himself has modified. Rather than a made-simple approach, this dynamic collection invokes some of the hesitations, contradictions, and evolutions that appear to be the most exciting part of his legacy, in “polylogical” discussions by “Lacanians” who are not averse to a critical reexamination of major concepts or textual and political issues. Topics include: a regressive sexual science and a “postmodern condition,” technological mediation through seduction and resistance, the partisan issues beneath some of the resistances met by Lacanian discourse, and Lacan's revelations as responses to Freudian riddles.