Lacanian Realism Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis [Hardcover]

Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) opened up a new path in the history of philosophy. And so, whether you agree or disagree with the speculative realism movement, it has to be addressed.Lacanian Realismdoes just that. This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the ground up: first, by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian category of the real; second, by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan's concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj }i~ek, Alain Badiou, Saul Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Ranci?re, and others, and; third, by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real.Lacanian Realismis an imaginative and timely exploration of the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and contemporary continental philosophy.Duane Rousselleis Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. He also maintains a private practice in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Preface to Lacanian Realism
Katerina Kolozova

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Part I: Metaphysics and Hysteria: A Clinical Overview

Chapter 1: Eisegesis of Hysteria in Lacan's Teaching
Chapter 2: The Phallus as Signifying Function
Chapter 3: From Signifying Function to the Thing Function
Chapter 4: The New Contradiction: ThingsandSubjects
Chapter 5: Non-Psychoanalysis: The New Hysterical Question

Part II: Politics and Obsession

Chapter 6: From Hysteria to Obsession: On the Question of Style
Chapter 7: The Question of Repetition or the Repetition of a Question
Chapter 8: From Obsession to Hysteria
Chapter 9: The Good Work of the Slave
Chapter 10: The Situation of Obsessional Politics
Chapter 11: The Knot of Rupture

Part III: Numbers and Thl“(