Psychoanalysis is an antiphilosophy [electronic resource] / Justin Clemens.

Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century. From psychiatry to politics, it left no field untouched. Yet it is itself an untouchable discipline: not really science, not really criticism. Alain Badiou described psychoanalysis as an 'antiphilosophy': a practice...

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Main Author: Clemens, Justin (Author)
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
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Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Psychoanalysis is an antiphilosophy
  • -- 1. Listening or Dispensing? Sigmund Freud on Drugs
  • - 2. Love as ontology
  • - 3. Revolution or Subversion? Jacques Lacan on Slavery
  • - 4. Messianism or Melancholia? Giorgio Agamben on Inaction
  • - 5. The Slave, The Fable
  • - 6. Torture, psychoanalysis, and beyond
  • - 7. Man is a swarm animal.