Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

Justin Clemens

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

Justin Clemens

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748678952

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Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death – as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters

Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise psychoanalysis as an ‘antiphilosophy’, that is, as a practice that issues the strongest possible challenges to thought. Justin Clemens takes up the challenge of this denomination here, by re-examining a series of crucial psychoanalytic themes: addiction, fanaticism, love, slavery and torture.

Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Badiou, Agamben and others, Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy offers a radical reconstruction of the operations and import of key psychoanalytic concepts and a renewed sense of the indispensable powers of psychoanalysis for today.

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Introduction: Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Listening or Dispensing? Sigmund Freud on Drugs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Love as Ontology; or, Psychoanalysis against Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
3. Revolution or Subversion? Jacques Lacan on Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. Messianism or Melancholia? Giorgio Agamben on Inaction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5. The Slave, The Fable Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
6. Torture, Psychoanalysis and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Man is a Swarm Animal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 200
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: May 13, 2013
ISBN: 9780748678952