Lacan the Charlatan (eBook)

Peter D. Mathews (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
XIV, 228 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-030-45204-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989. He stated that Lacan was a 'charlatan' - not that his ideas were flawed or wrong, but that his entire discourse was fraudulent, an accusation that has since been repeated by many other critics. Examining the arguments of key anti-Lacanian critics, Mathews weighs and contextualizes the legitimacy of Lacan's engagements with structural linguistics, mathematical formalization, science, ethics, Hegelian dialectics, and psychoanalysis. The guiding thread is Lacan's own recurrent interrogation of authority, which inhabits an ambiguous zone between mastery and charlatanry. This book offers a novel contribution to the field for students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, critical and literary theory.

Peter D. Mathews is Professor of English Literature at Hanyang University, South Korea.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 228 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: anti-Lacanian critics • authority • Dylan Evans • ethics • François Roustang • Hegelian dialectics • Lacanian psychoanalysis • mathematical formalization • Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen • Noam Chomsky • psychoanalytic theory • Raymond Tallis • Sigmund Freud • structural linguistics • Stuart Schneiderman • The Freud Wars
• ISBN-10: 3-030-45204-2 / 3030452042
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-45204-9 / 9783030452049