1st Edition

Lacan and Addiction An Anthology

By Yael Goldman Baldwin Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

With chapters from Rik Loose, Fabian Naparstek, Patricia Gherovici, Bruce Fink, Thomos Svolos and many others, the anthology is for people interested in the topic of addictions, or in Lacanian psychoanalysis, and especially for those interested in how the two intersect. Lacan and Addiction is based on papers presented at a 2006 conference where Lacanians from around the world gathered to speak... Read more
Introduction , Modern symptoms and their effects as forms of administration: a challenge to the concept of dual diagnosis and to treatment , New uses of drugs , Knows no’s nose , Brief comments on Rolf Flor’s case presentation , Introducing the “New Symptoms” , Comments on “Introducing the ‘New Symptoms’” , Bulimia: between phobia and addiction , Two people in a room: ethnographers, unruly subjects, and the pleasures of addiction , “Toxicomanic” passion for an object: the sexual relation exists , The colour of emptiness: addiction and the drive , Leverage of the letter in the emergence of desire: a case of addiction , Lost objects: repetition in Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the clinic , Bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other , Response: Bulimia, anxiety, and the demand of the Other , Addictions, sexual identity, and our times , Speech, language, and savoir in the Lacanian clinic of addiction , Response to Christopher Meyer , Afterword

Biography

Yael Goldman Baldwin