New Remarks on the Passage to the Act

Lacan and the Lacanians
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82361-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence.

Jean Allouch examines key events – the crimes of the Papin sisters, Lacan’s case of Aimée and the murder of Hélène Rytmann by Louis Althusser – and unpacks the concept of the "passage to the act". The book assesses these classic cases, resorting to contemporaneous studies and literature, particularly discussing Marguerite Duras’ novel L’Amante Anglaise. The book also considers modern acts of terrorism.

New Remarks on the Passage to the Act will be of great interest to clinicians, academics and scholars of psychoanalysis, Lacanian studies, sociology, cultural studies and philosophy, and to Lacanian analysts in practice and in training.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allouch, Jean

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zentner, Oscar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Jean Allouch in memoriam

Translator's Notes

Presentation of "New Remarks on the Passage to the Act" by Jean Allouch

Provenance of Texts

Acknowledgements



Introduction



I Actuality of the Passage to the Act



II To Think, to Act: Lois Althusser



III Passage to the Act and the Epic Leap: Marguerite Duras



Conclusion: Enlightened Passage to the Act: Lacan

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Allouch (1939–2023) was an internationally renowned psychoanalyst and one of the founders and directors of the review Littoral, as well as of the École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse (Paris). He was one of the most prominent and prolific authors in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Oscar Zentner is a Lacanian psychoanalyst trained in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with María-Inés Rotmiler de Zentner, he introduced in 1977 Lacan’s psychoanalytic tenets in Australia.