1st Edition

Lacan and the Political

By Yannis Stavrakakis Copyright 2000
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

The work of Jacques Lacan is second only to Freud in its impact on psychoanalysis. Yannis Stavrakakis clearly examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a political standpoint. It is the first book to provide an overview of the social and political implications of Lacan's work as a whole for students coming to Lacan for the first time. The... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Lacanian Subject; Chapter 2 The Lacanian Object; Chapter 3 Encircling the Political; Chapter 4 Beyond the Fantasy of Utopia; Chapter 5 Ambiguous Democracy and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis;

Biography

Yannis Stavrakakis is teaching fellow at the department of Government at the University of Essex and Acting Director of the MA programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis.