Interpretation and Truth in Lacan and Wittgenstein Contemporary Deliberations on Ethics and Language

1. Language, Ethics, and the Subject. Elaborations Around the Work of Wittgenstein and Lacan for Thinking About Contemporary Problems

Daniel Jofré-Astudillo and Alejandro Bilbao-Zepeda

2. Grammatical Fictions: Private Language, Therapy, and Ethics with Lacan, Wittgenstein, and Cavell

Paul M. Livingston

3. The Limits of Language: A Saying, an Ethics.

Diógenes Mauricio Ipuz-Chacón

4. Lacan and Wittgenstein’s Theories in the Context of the Digital Age: Re-evaluating Subjectivities and the Mechanisms of Real Construction.

Ermindo Buono

5. Is the Unconscious Structured Like a Language?

Sergio Benvenuto

6. Interiority Lost: Grammar as the Limits of the Cogito in Wittgenstein and Lacan

Dario Alparone

7. Jouissance Lost? A Wittgensteinian Critique of Jacques Lacan’s (1901-1981) Concept and its Interpretation by Judith Butler (1956-)

Lukas Frank

8. Lacan, Wittgenstein and the Symptom as Metaphor

Talia Morag

Biography

Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist from the Université Rennes 2, France, and Doctor in psychology from the same university. He is currently a Professor at Escuela de Psicoanálisis of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and a member of the psychoanalytic association, Analítica. 

"An exciting and bold new volume that sustains a constructive dialogue between two major, and very different, figures of the linguistic turn: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan. Ranging from the unconscious and dreams to truth and power, it explores both how much can be illuminated and the philosophical challenges that arise when we consider ourselves as beings of language."

Maria Balaska, Author of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit

"This volume, written by an international collection of analysts and academics, focuses on Lacan's specific convergences with Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most demanding philosophical writers. The authors not only cover new developments in an area that was in desperate need of further research, but also assess, and even critique, the historical, linguistic theories of these two brilliant (and often misunderstood) minds."

Kirk Turner, Author of Lacanian Fantasy: The Image, Language and Uncertainty

"This volume promises to be a game-changer in respect of how Lacan can be read alongside - or through - Wittgenstein, and how Wittgenstein can likewise be read alongside - and through - Lacan. It explores a variety of intriguing perspectives on the Lacan - Wittgenstein 'non-relation' in ways which are sophisticated, nuanced and truly illuminating."

Derek Hook, Professor, Duquesne University