Powers of Abjection

Politics and Lacanian Ontology
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-59967-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Psychoanalytic Political Theory

In this book, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff presents a new ontological understanding of politics through the writings of Julia Kristeva’s notion of “abjection” in dialogue with Sigmund Freud’s concept of “Unheimlich” and Jacques Lacan’s ontology “du rél”.

Aimed at those who are interested in the politics-psychoanalytic “praxis”, Laleff Ilieff argues that the abject enables one to critically read conceptual developments that are central to contemporary thought. Examining the abject in sacrifice, war, and the One as articulated by contemporary thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Carl Schmitt, RenéGirard, Pierre Clastres, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Rancièe, Laleff Ilieff argues that abjection does not operate on the margins of the social but is what unveils the failure of all identity.

Powers of Abjection provides new questions and insights into the relation between psychoanalysis and politics and is an invaluable resource to students and scholars.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laleff Ilieff, Ricardo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Yannis Stavrakakis

Introduction

Part One: The Real and the Symbolic 

1. The Uncanny 

2. A Pure Real 

Part Two: Sacrifice 

3. The Crisis of Distinctions 

4. Homines Sacri  

Part Three: War 

5. The Enemy 

6. The Partisan 

Part Four: The One 

7. Being Pané 

8. The Part of Those That Have No Part 

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Ricardo Laleff Ilieff is Professor of Political Theory at the Gino Germani Research Institute (University of Buenos Aires) as well as a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina.