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Lacan for beginners /

"Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are 'Lacanians') yet most people know nothing about him. The 10,000 analysts who use Lacan's ideas work mostly in France, Spain, Italy, and Sou...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Hill, Philip
Formaat: Printed Book
Taal:English
Gepubliceerd in: Chennai : Orient Longman, 2002.
Reeks:For beginners documentary comic book.
Onderwerpen:
Inhoudsopgave:
  • 1. Introduction : What is psychoanalysis? What have images got to do with the ego? What does the ego do?
  • 2. What has language got to do with psychoanalysis? What did Lacan mean when he said that 'the unconscious is structured like a language'?
  • 3. Lacan's theory of 'the real' as the 'impossible to say' that always returns
  • 4. 'Jouissance' or sexual enjoyment and desire. Is sexual enjoyment something that only happens through intercourse? How are 'need', 'demand', and 'desire' differentiated?
  • 5. Objects and their subject
  • 6. The four discourses : four ways of speaking and being
  • 7. Overview of psychopathology : focus on perversion, hysteria and obsessional neurosis
  • 8. What is psychosis?
  • 9. What is feminine sexuality? What does it mean to be a woman?
  • 10. What is topology? and : What does it have to do with time? Why do Lancanians use variable length sessions?
  • 11. What is the good of psychoanalysis? and : What is the meaning of life?
  • 12. Review.