Addresses Lacan's reception in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering new perspectives for American readers. This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection is partly about Germany itself, addressing questions of trauma, historical memory, politics, fascism, and democracy. The essays range from investigations of particular art forms such as music and tragedy to clinical studies of melancholia, depression, anxiety, and other somatic phenomena that have a symbolic or psychic dimension. As a whole, the book explores the breakdown of meaning and the failure of social and political structures, which Lacan addresses through the category of the Real, and it offers English-speaking readers a variety of new perspectives on Lacan and psychoanalysis. --- from the publisher Reviews: "This excellent collection is the first in English to address the reception and use of Lacan in Germany, and its strong connection between clinical and cultural issues is new and illuminating." — Charles Shepherdson, author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis Contributors include Bernard Baas, Rudolf Bernet, Raymond Borens, Johannes Fehr, Richard Feldstein, Hans-Dieter Gondek, Lucien Israel, Maire Jaanus, Alain Juranville, Anne Juranville, Christian Klaui, Sebastian Leikert, Monique David-Menard, André Michels, August Ruhs, Joachim Saalfrank, Regula Schindler, Elizabeth Stewart, Dieter Strauli, Samuel Weber, Elisabeth Widmer, and Peter Widmer.
Contents: Acknowledgements General Introduction Part I: Cultural Introduction 1. The Object of Jouissance in Music Sebastian Leikert 2. On Murder, or: Tell's Projectile Peter Widmer 3. Perversion: Tragedy or Guilt? Raymond Borens 4. Identification in the Name of Lolita Joachim Saalfrank 5. The Beauty behind the Window Shutters August Ruhs Part II: Sexual Introduction 6. Sexual Identification and Sexual Difference Rudolph Bernet 7. The Joys and Suffering of So-Called Interpretation or: The Soul of the Dress's Fold Johannes Fehr and Dieter Strauli 8. Hysteria and Melancholia in Woman Anne Juranville 9. Symbolic Mother--Real Father Regula Schindler Part III: Clinical Introduction 10. "But It, the World . . . It Shames My Mute Pain": Some Thoughts on Melancholia and Depression Christian Klaui 11. The Act of Interpretation: Its Conditions and its Consequences Monique David-Menard 12. Castration and Incest Prohibition in Francoise Dolto Elisabeth Widmer 13. Demand and Wish Lucien Israel 14. Psychosis and Names Andre Michels Part IV: Philosophical Introduction 15. Vertigo: The Question of Anxiety in Freud Samuel Weber 16. From the Protective Shield against Stimuli to the Fantasm: A Reading of Chapter 4 of Beyond the Pleasure Principle Hans-Dieter Gondek 17. Sacrifice and the Law Bernard Baas 18. Freud and Democracy Peter Widmer 19. The Lacanian Thing Alain Juranville Contributors Index About the Editors: Elizabeth Stewart is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University. Maire Jaanus is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She is the coeditor (with Richard Feldstein and Bruce Fink) of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: The Paris Seminars in English and Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, both published by SUNY Press. Richard Feldstein is Professor of English at Rhode Island College.
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