A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized a range of fields. The volume aims to introduce Lacan’s vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner. The volume is split into three distinct sections: • Psychoanalysis and Politics: this section will frame the discussion by providing general background of Lacan’s engagement with politics and the political • Lacan and the Political: each chapter will focus on different key ideas and concepts in Lacan’s thought including ethics, justice, discourse, object a, symptom, jouissance • Political Encounters: seeks to represent different ways of engaging with Lacanian thought and ways of adopting it to explain and comment on global political phenomena Bringing together internationally recognised scholars in the field, this volume will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars in areas including critical theory, international relations, political theory and political philosophy. Contents: Introduction: Jacques Lacan: between politics and psychoanalysis, 1. Political significance of psychoanalysis Jean-Michel Rabate, Lacan’s "annees erotiques" (1968/69) Jelica Sumic Riha, Politics and Psychoanalysis in Times of the Inexistent Other 2. Lacanian psychoanalysis and the political Oedipus and the intricacy of language and sexuality, Philippe Van Haute and Tomas Geyskens, Freud’s Dream? Lacan and Oedipus, Mladen Dolar, Not Even: Politics of Oedipus, Juliet Flower-MacCannel, Lacan’s Imaginary, Alenka Zupancic, Sexual is Political, Dominiek Hoens, Object a and Politics Politics and Lacan’s theory of discourses, Peter Klepec, On the Mastery in the Four Discourses, Colin Wright, Discourse and the Master’s lining: a Lacanian critique of globalizing biopolitics, Samo Tomsic, Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Critique of Political Economy, Mai Wegener, Why should dreaming be a form of work? 3. Psychoanalysis and Political Encounters Juliet Rogers, A Stranger Politics: towards a theory of resistance in psychoanalytical thought and practice, Ari Hirvonen, The Truth of Desire: Lack, Law and Phallus, Andreja Zevnik, Kant avec Sade: Ethics in a Trap of Politics and the Perversion of Law, Kirsten Campbell, Feminism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Slavoj Zizek, Divine Ex-Sistence, David Pavón-Cuéllar, Metapsychology on the battlefield: political praxis as critique of the psychological essence of ideology, Panu Minkkinen, Lacan avec Battaile avec Nietzsche: a politics of the impossible? About the Editors: Samo Tomsic is Slovenian philosopher and translator. He published several papers on French structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, with particular focus on Lacan's final teaching. He is currently Humboldt fellow at the Institute for German Literature (Humboldt University, Berlin). His current research concerns Lacan's reading of Marx, on one hand, and representations of life and body in psychoanalysis, on the other. His book on Lacan's anti-philosophy was published in Ljubljana in 2011 Andreja Zevnik is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester.
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