Brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated in their respective research areas and outlines the shape of Lacanian discourse, showing the relation of Lacan's thought to philosophy, science, literature and aesthetics, gender and sexuality, and psychoanalytic theory. The distinguishing feature of Disseminating Lacan is its decidedly interdisciplinary approach. This book brings together diverse research efforts which have remained, until now, isolated in their respective subject-matter areas. The essays selected here exhibit a threefold discursive movement of dissemination which is implicit in Lacan's texts. First, they bring to light the way in which Lacan's text has been formed through diverse "borrowings" from various theoretical discourses such as sociology, linguistics, and philosophy. Second, they trace how Lacan's text, in turn, has engaged, affected, and transformed those theoretical disciplines. Third, they suggest some possible critical readings of Lacan from various perspectives and concerns. These critiques, far from refuting Lacan's undeniable contribution to psychoanalysis and to the intellectual world, enrich and advance Lacanian discourse. The book features four prominent French Lacanians: Juan David Nasio, Joel Dor, Moustapha Safouan, and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. Essays by two of them, Nasio and Dor, appear here in English for the first time. Additionally, the volume features authors who have established and continue to guide Lacanian studies in the United States, and it introduces emerging voices in Lacanian studies. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Editors' Introduction PART I. LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY The Concept of the Subject of the Unconscious Juan-David Nasio The Order of the Real.' Nietzsche and Lacan Babette Babich Lacan and Merleau-Ponty: The Confrontation of Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology James Phillips PART II. LACAN AND SCIENCE The Epistemological Status of Lacan's Mathematical Paradigms Joël Dor Sociology Before Linguistics: Lacan's Debt to Durkheim Stephen Michelman Toward a New Alliance between Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Judith Feher Gurewich PART III. LACAN, AESTHETICS, AND LITERATURE The Third Generation of Desire William Richardson Lacan: The Poetic Unconscious David Pettigrew Lacan and Modernism: Representation and Its Vicissitudes Thomas Brockelman PART IV. THE QUESTION OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER Sexuality in Neurosis and Psychosis: Two Letters from Freud to Jung Moustapha Safouan Jocelyn, a Story of the Soul Cora Monroe Queering the Phallus Debra Bergoften PART V. PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE The Oedipus Problem in Freud and Lacan Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen Lacan and Schatzman: Reflections on the Concept of "Paternal Metaphor" Wilfried Ver Eecke The Psychical Meaning of Life and Death: Reflections on the Lacanian Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Richard Boothby A Semiotic Correlate of Psychotic States John Muller Contributors Index About the Editors: David Pettigrew is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. François Raffoul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Both co-translated The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, also published by SUNY Press.
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