1st Edition
Jacques Lacan Between Psychoanalysis and Politics
Introduction: Jacques Lacan: between politics and psychoanalysis I: Political significance of psychoanalysis 1. Jean-Michel Rabaté, Lacan’s "années érotiques" (1968/69) 2. Jelica Šumič, Politics and Psychoanalysis in Times of the Inexistent Other II: Lacanian psychoanalysis and the political Oedipus and the intricacy of language and sexuality 3. Philippe Van Haute and Tomas Geyskens, Freud’s Dream? Lacan and Oedipus 4. Mladen Dolar, Not Even: Politics of Oedipus 5. Juliet Flower-MacCannel, Lacan’s Imaginary 6. Alenka Zupančič, Sexual is Political 7. Dominiek Hoens, Object a and Politics Politics and Lacan’s theory of discourses 8. Peter Klepec, On the Mastery in the Four Discourses 9. Colin Wright, Discourse and the Master’s lining: a Lacanian critique of globalizing biopolitics 10. Samo Tomšič, Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Critique of Political Economy 11. Mai Wegener, Why should dreaming be a form of work? III: Psychoanalysis and Political Encounters 12. Juliet Rogers, A Stranger Politics: towards a theory of resistance in psychoanalytical thought and practice 13. Ari Hirvonen, The Truth of Desire: Lack, Law and Phallus 14. Andreja Zevnik, Kant avec Sade: Ethics in a Trap of Politics and the Perversion of Law 15. Kirsten Campbell, Feminism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis 16. Slavoj Žižek, Divine Ex-Sistence 17. David Pavón-Cuéllar, Metapsychology on the battlefield: political praxis as critique of the psychological essence of ideology 18. Panu Minkkinen, Lacan avec Bataille avec Nietzsche: a politics of the impossible?
Biography
Samo Tomšič works as researcher in the interdisciplinary laboratory "Image Knowledge Gestaltung" at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany). His research areas comprise psychoanalysis, structuralism, epistemology and contemporary French philosophy.
Andreja Zevnik is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include theories of subjectivity, political violence and resistance, aesthetic politics, law and psychoanalysis. She is a convener of Critical Global Politics research cluster and a member of editorial board for the Journal of Narrative Politics.
