Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity Spectre of Madness

Introduction: The Paradox of Self-Reflection  Variation 1: The Diremptive Remains  Variation 2: The Triumph of Dialectical "Lower" Terms  Variation 3: Speculative Topology  Variation 4: Vicious Dialectical Reversals  Variation 5: Faith and Reason  Variation 6: The Paradoxes of Love  Variation 7: The Paradox of Identity  Variation 8: Subject and Collective  Variation 9: Ausstossung and Verwerfung  Variation 10: Symbolic Murder and Suicide  Variation11: Generational Difference: Parent and Child  Variation 12: Power Difference: Analysand and Analyst  Variation 13: Sexual Difference: Man and Woman  Variation 14: The Paradox of a Boundary Without a Limit  Variation 15: Good and Evil  Variation 16: Truth and Lies  Variation 17: Thrownness and Autonomy  Variation 18: Life and Death  Variation 19: The Force and Frailty of the Law  Variation 20: Madness and Sanity  Variation 21: The Diremptions of Fantasy  Variation 22: The Untimely-Contemporary  Variation 23: Religion and Atheism  Variation 24: The Death of God  Variation 25: The Symptom as Human Notion  Conclusion: From Via Dolorosa to Gaya Scienza

Biography

Alireza Taheri provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy in private practice in Toronto where he is also actively involved in teaching Lacanian theory at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. Alireza is a permanent faculty member of HamAva Psychoanalytic Institute in Tehran (Iran) where he teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice. He is also engaged in writing articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis and is presently the editor-in-chief and book review editor of Psychoanalytic Discourse (an independent international journal for the clinical, theoretical and cultural discussion of psychoanalysis).

"Alireza Taheri's book provides the ultimate proof that a combination of Hegel's dialectics and Lacan's psychoanalytic theory is the best instrument to analyse the madness of our late capitalist modernity. Spectre of Madness is not yet another book on Hegel and Lacan - it is simply a book for everyone who wants to understand how things could have gone so wrong after Fukuyama proclaimed the end of history."
Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London

"Taheri clearly and perceptively retraces the　complexity of　modern Western philosophy from Kant　onward,　using the key concept of Diremption. This book is a precious tool for anyone　looking for an up-to-date examination of　psychoanalysis through philosophical reflection."
Sergio Benvenuto, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council in Rome

"In Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity: Spectre of Madness, Alireza Taheri creatively recasts the notion of negativity at the intersection of German idealism and psychoanalysis. On the basis of a Lacanian rendition of Hegelian contradiction, Taheri’s book meticulously and insightfully explores a series of irresolvable antinomies both organizing and unsettling human subjects. Kant famously asked ‘What may I hope?’ Taheri, on the basis of his wide-ranging assessment of the contradictions that make (and unmake) who we are, could be said to confront us with the equally important sobering question: ‘For what may I not hope?’"
Adrian Johnston, Department of Philosophy University of New Mexico