Lacan's Cruelty

Perversion beyond Philosophy, Culture and Clinic
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-06237-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: The Palgrave Lacan Series

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of cruelty—a psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world. Instead of reducing the notion of perversion to cultural representations, a historical discourse or a clinical diagnosis, the authors in this collection draw on Freud, Kant, Hegel, Marquis de Sade, Derrida, Deleuze and Žižek to untie the knot of “psychic cruelty” intrinsic to perversion and therefore “de-sexualize” perverted acts. They do so by theorizing perversion in psychoanalytic concepts of the Oedipus complex, the-Name-of-the-Father and jouissance, and furthermore in the perspective of the clinics of neurosis and psychosis, in dialogue with a clinical praxis, philosophy and literature.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Meera

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis in the Bedroom.- Chapter 2. Cruelfictions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Derrida, Mignotte.- Chapter 3. Intimate Cruelties: Perversions, Sexuality and the Human Animal.- Chapter 4. On the Right to Jouissance.- Chapter 5. A Perverse Fascination for Death and Jouissance: Bataille, Lacan and the Anti-social Turn in Queer Theory.- Chapter 6. Perversion after Freud: from the Cruel Father to the Joycean Clinic.- Chapter 7. The Anxiety at the Heart of Perverse Experience: A Clinical Perspective.- Chapter 8.  ‘The Pornography of His Eyes’: A Vignette of Perversion.- Chapter 9. Neoliberalism and Liminality: Perverse Cruelties in the Age of the Capitalist Discourse.

Über Autor(innen)

Meera Lee is on the faculty of Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, and a psychoanalyst in analytic formation.