Tag Archives: Lacan
The Symptom 12
The Symptom 12 / lacan dot com – Fall 2011 Jacques-Alain Miller The Non-Existent Seminar Alain Badiou Towards a New Concept of Existence Slavoj Žižek Why the Idea and Why… Read more
Philosophers Zone – 24 September 2011 – The Mind of Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Emile Lacan, who died in 1981, was a French psychoanalyst and follower of Freud, but his influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of psychiatry: to philosophy, critical… Read more
Lacan’s unpublished seminars
These translations were originally done for a reading group of colleagues and graduates which has met since 1987. Each translation was drafted during the summer vacation, was worked through on… Read more
Zizek Of Apes and Men: Lenin’s Enlightenment
Lenin’s legacy to be reinvented today is the politics of truth. We live in the “postmodern” era in which truth-claims as such are dismissed as an expression of hidden power-mechanisms… Read more
Happy New Year
As you make your wishes for the new year, remember Lacan (via Kevin Spacey): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyqVvMAp9Bo[/youtube] (h/t: the one and only Peter)
New Book: Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan
It’s my pleasure to post about my friend Andrea Hurst’s book,Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) From the publisher’s site: Derrida and Lacan have long… Read more
On Nietzsche
Special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy (2007) Todd, Cain (2007) Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value. Schoeman, Marinus (2007) Generosity as a central virtue in Nietzsche’s ethics. Olivier,… Read more
Political Theory: June 2008; Vol. 36, No. 3
TOC Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing — Claudia Leeb Ethics and Subjectivity: Practices of Self-Governance in the Late… Read more
Zizek and Critchley
As most of you know, there has been an interesting exchange between Zizek and Critchley. Zizek published a review of Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. The… Read more
New Book: Rethinking Facticity
Description of Rethinking Facticity, eds, Francois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has… Read more