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Cogito and the Unconscious

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382121
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Cogito and the Unconscious written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. Without psychoanalyzing philosophy, Cogito and the Unconscious explores the vicissitudes of the cogito and shows that psychoanalyses can render visible a constitutive madness within modern philosophy, the point at which "I think, therefore I am" becomes obsessional neurosis characterized by "If I stop thinking, I will cease to exist." Noting that for Lacan the Cartesian construct is the same as the Freudian "subject of the unconscious," the contributors follow Lacan's plea for a psychoanalytic return to the cogito. Along the path of this return, they examine the ethical attitude that befits modern subjectivity, the inherent sexualization of modern subjectivity, the impasse in which the Cartesian project becomes involved given the enigmatic status of the human body, and the Cartesian subject's confrontation with its modern critics, including Althusser, Bataille, and Dennett. In a style that has become familiar to Žižek's readers, these essays bring together a strict conceptual analysis and an approach to a wide range of cultural and ideological phenomena—from the sadist paradoxes of Kant's moral philosophy to the universe of Ayn Rand's novels, from the question "Which, if any, is the sex of the cogito?" to the defense of the cogito against the onslaught of cognitive sciences. Challenging us to reconsider fundamental notions of human consciousness and modern subjectivity, this is a book whose very Lacanian orthodoxy makes it irreverently transgressive of predominant theoretical paradigms. Cogito and the Unconscious will appeal to readers interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and theories of ideology. Contributors. Miran Bozovic, Mladen Dolar, Alain Grosrichard, Marc de Kessel, Robert Pfaller, Renata Salecl, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic

Ricoeur and Lacan

Author : Karl Simms
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441163956
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Ricoeur and Lacan written by Karl Simms and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comparative study of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the psychoanalayst Jacques Lacan. The book explores the conflict between the two thinkers that arose from their differing views of ethics: Ricoeur's universalist stance drew on a phenomenological reading of Kant, whereas Lacan's was a relativist position, derived from a psychoanalytic reading of Freud and de Sade. Ricoeur and Lacan gives a full critical overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. Not only a valuable and original addition to the literature on two major thinkers, Ricoeur and Lacan is also an important study of contemporary Continental ethics.

Žižek and His Contemporaries

Author : Jones Irwin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441111786
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Žižek and His Contemporaries written by Jones Irwin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New interviews with Slavoj Žižek and his contemporaries, accompanied by critical analysis of the wider Slovenian philosophical and cultural context that spawned their thought.

From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious

Author : David Pavon Cuellar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429914202
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious written by David Pavon Cuellar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This striking Lacanian contribution to discourse analysis is also a critique of contemporary psychological abstraction, as well as a reassessment of the radical opposition between psychology and psychoanalysis. This original introduction to Lacan’s work bridges the gap between discourseanalytical debates in social psychology and the social-theoretical extensions of discourse theory. David Pavón Cuéllar provides a precise definition and a detailed explanation of key Lacanian concepts, and illustrates how they may be put to work on a concrete discourse, in this case a fragment of an interview obtained by the author from the Mexican underground Popular Revolutionary Forces (EPR). Throughout the book, Lacanian concepts are compared to their counterparts in psychology. Such a comparison reveals insuperable incompatibilities between the two series of concepts. The author shows that Lacan’s psychoanalytical terminology can neither be translated nor assimilated to the terms of current psychology. Among the notions in actual or potential competition with Lacanian concepts, the book deals with those proposed by semiology, Marxism, phenomenology, constructionism, deconstruction, and hermeneutics. Taking a stand on those theoretical positions, each chapter includes detailed discussion of the contribution of classical approaches to language; including Barthes, Bakhtin, Althusser, Politzer, Wittgenstein, Berger and Luckmann, Derrida, and Ricoeur. There is sustained reference in the body of the text to the arguments of Lacan and Lacanians, of Miller, Milner, Soler, and Žižek. At the same time, in the extensive notes accompanying the text, there is a systematic reappraisal and reinterpretation of debates and pieces of research work in social psychology, especially in a discursive and critical domain that has incorporated elements of psychoanalytic theory.

Disavowal

Author : Alenka Zupančič
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509561218
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Disavowal written by Alenka Zupančič and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and negation, disavowal functions by fully acknowledging what we disavow. Zupančič contends that disavowal, which sustains some belief by means of ardently proclaiming the knowledge of the opposite, is becoming a predominant feature of our social and political life. She also shows how the libidinal economy of disavowal is a key element of capitalist economy. The concept of fetishistic disavowal already exposes the objectified side of the mechanism of the disavowal, which follows the general formula: I know well, but all the same, the object-fetish allows me to disregard this knowledge. Zupančič adds another twist by showing how, in the prevailing structure of disavowal today, the mere act of declaring that we know becomes itself an object-fetish by which we intercept the reality of that very knowledge. This perverse deployment of knowledge deprives it of any reality. This structure of disavowal can be found not only in the more extreme and dramatic cases of conspiracy theories and re-emerging magical thinking, but even more so in the supposedly sober continuation of business as usual, combined with the call to adapt to the new reality. To disrupt this social embedding of disavowal, it is not enough to change the way we think: things need to change, and hence the way they think for us.

Concept and Form, Volume 2

Author : Peter Hallward
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844678733
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Concept and Form, Volume 2 written by Peter Hallward and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l’Analyse (1966–69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and Jacques Lacan, the editors of the Cahiers sought to sever philosophy from the interpretation of given meanings or experiences, focusing instead on the mechanisms that structure specific configurations of discourse, from the psychological and ideological to the literary, scientific, and political. Adequate analysis of the operations at work in these configurations, they argue, helps prepare the way for their revolutionary transformation. Volume One of Concept and Form translates some of the most important theoretical texts from the Cahiers pour l’Analyse; this second volume collects newly commissioned essays on the journal, together with recent interviews with people who were either members of its editorial board or associated with its broader theoretical project. It aims to help reconstruct the intellectual context of the Cahiers, and to assess its contemporary theoretical legacy. Prefaced by an overview of the project’s rigorous investment in science and conceptual analysis, the volume considers in particular the Cahiers’ distinctive effort to link the apparently incommensurable categories of ‘structure’ and ‘subject’, so as to prepare for a new synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis.Contributors include Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar, Edward Baring, Jacques Bouveresse, Yves Duroux, Alain Grosrichard, Peter Hallward, Adrian Johnston, Patrice Maniglier, Tracy McNulty, Jean-Claude Milner, Knox Peden, Jacques Rancière, François Regnault, and Slavoj Žižek.

Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism

Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501367455
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism written by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavoj Žižek is one of today's leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological complacencies-e.g., the death of the subject and the return to ethics-and pre-modern ones-e.g., the re-enchantment of the world, the embrace of postcritique-Žižek doubles down on the virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy) in the age of the Anthropocene. This volume takes up the challenges laid out by Žižek's iconoclastic thinking and its reverberations in an array of fields: philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, literary studies, and film studies, among others. Žižek's multi-disciplinary appeal attests to the provocation, if not scandal, of his politically incorrect thought. Understanding Žižek, Understanding Modernism makes the force and inventiveness of Žižek's writings accessible to a wide range of students and scholars invested in the open question of modernism and its legacies.

The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film

Author : M. Flisfeder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137110740
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Zizek's Theory of Film written by M. Flisfeder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Žižek's theory of film aims to re-politicize film studies and film theory, bringing cinema into the fold of twenty-first century politics.

Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy

Author : Yiwei Zheng
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739111178
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Ontology and Ethics in Sartre's Early Philosophy written by Yiwei Zheng and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of Being and Nothingness, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) claims that his ethics follow from his ontology and are based on it. Zheng (philosophy, St. Cloud State U.) investigates whether, and to what extent, that is true. After studying in detail the important notions in his early ontology and ethics, including some notorio

The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartre's Philosophy

Author : Thomas W. Busch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114037
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Consciousness and the Force of Circumstances in Sartre's Philosophy written by Thomas W. Busch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Displaying a masterful grasp of the texts, the author shows how otherness forces itself upon the existentialist Sartre, gradually constraining him to modify his understanding of consciousness as omnipotent. The issue is Sartre's discovery of the social and its conceptual assimilation into his individualistic, consciousness-oriented philosophy." -- Thomas R. Flynn "This very successful and accessible scholarly book... is simultaneously a succinct and clear overview of Sartre's philosophical works.... and a fresh consideration of Sartre's body of work." -- Choice "Busch's admirably clear and compact discussion is essential reading for Sartre scholars, since it powerfully addresses many issues dividing them... " -- Ethics "... a useful overview of the evolution of Sartre's thought... " -- Review of Politics "... a thought provoking reassessment of Sartre's philosophical career." -- Man and World "... succinct, richly documented survey... " -- International Studies in Philosophy

Mind World

Author : David Woodruff Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521539739
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Mind World written by David Woodruff Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the structure of consciousness and its place in the world, or inversely the structure of the world and the place of consciousness in it. Amongst the topics covered are: the phenomenological aspects of experience, dependencies between experience and the world and the basic ontological categories found in the world at large. Developing ideas drawn from historical figures such as Descartes, Husserl, Aristotle, and Whitehead, the essays together demonstrate the interdependence of ontology and phenomenology and its significance for the philosophy of mind.

The Ticklish Subject

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842911
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Ticklish Subject written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his characteristic wit, Zizek addresses the burning question of how to reformulate a leftist project in an era of global capitalism and liberal-democratic multiculturalism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134612958
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics and cultural studies. Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Stephen Priest's clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion to those coming to Sartre's writings for the first time.

The Self, Ethics & Human Rights

Author : Joseph Indaimo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317805852
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Self, Ethics & Human Rights written by Joseph Indaimo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the notion of human identity informs the ethical goal of justice in human rights. Within the modern discourse of human rights, the issue of identity has been largely neglected. However, within this discourse lies a conceptualisation of identity that was derived from a particular liberal philosophy about the ‘true nature’ of the isolated, self-determining and rational individual. Rights are thus conceived as something that are owned by each independent self, and that guarantee the exercise of its autonomy. Critically engaging this subject of rights, this book considers how recent shifts in the concept of identity and, more specifically, the critical humanist notion of ‘the other’, provides a basis for re-imagining the foundation of contemporary human rights. Drawing on the work of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, an inter-subjectivity between self and other ‘always already’ marks human identity with an ethical openness. And, this book argues, it is in the shift away from the human self as a ‘sovereign individual’ that human rights have come to reflect a self-identity that is grounded in the potential of an irreducible concern for the other.

Meaning-Full Disease

Author : Brian Broom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429916140
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Meaning-Full Disease written by Brian Broom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is grounded upon the author's extensive professional involvement with physical diseases that are a powerful expression of the patients' emotional themes and life-stories. They are meaning-full diseases. They occur commonly, and are the most compelling argument for an urgent acknowledgment of the role of meanings in the healing process. Following the pattern of his first book, Somatic Illness and the Patient's Other Story, the author shows in case after case that listening and responding to the "story" of patients suffering from persistent physical diseases frequently leads to major reversal of the disease processes. This present book takes a crucial second step. There must be an understandable basis for meaning-full diseases. Resistance to them relates in part to the inability of current Western scientific and biomedical theories to explain them. The author sets out to construct conceptual frameworks, within which clinicians and patients can see that a close relationship between life experience and the appearance of physical disease really does make sense.

Time Driven

Author : Adrian Johnston
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810122057
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Time Driven written by Adrian Johnston and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud outlines two types of conflict; that between drives and reality; and that between the drives themselves. Adrian Johnston identifies a third; the conflict embedded within each and every drive.

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism

Author : Jin Y. Park
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739140779
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism written by Jin Y. Park and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho.