Title
Lacan's cruelty : perversion beyond philosophy, culture and clinic / Meera Lee, editor.
ISBN
9783031062384 (ebook)
3031062388 (ebook)
9783031062377 (hardback)
303106237X (hardback)
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-06238-4 doi
Call Number
BJ1535.C7
Dewey Decimal Classification
179
Summary
Lacan's Cruelty provides an expansive analysis of the role that perverse cruelty plays in our psychic lives and in social relations. Including a range of impressive contributors (not limited to the usual suspects for a volume on Lacan), this collection offers several fecund avenues for rethinking encrusted conceptions of perversion. Meera Lees volume represents an indispensable contribution to the understanding of one of the most slippery psychoanalytic concepts. Each essay is an absolute gem. Todd McGowan, Author of Universality and Identity Politics and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Vermont, USA Lacan's Cruelty brings us a powerful group of reliable thinkers with a strong international reach, who work across the border between philosophy and psychoanalysis, clinic and culture. These essays break decisively with the outmoded normative categories that guided previous scholarship on perversion, and reveal the far-reaching relevance of perversion to our current cultural dislocations of enjoyment. Charles Shepherdson, Author of Lacan and the Limits of Knowledge and Professor of English at the University of Albany, USA This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, is a unique exploration of the novel aspects of perversion from the perspective of crueltya psychoanalytic study that has never been sufficiently undertaken in an English-speaking world. Instead of reducing the notion of perversion to cultural representations, a historical discourse or a clinical diagnosis, the authors in this collection draw on Freud, Kant, Hegel, Marquis de Sade, Derrida, Deleuze and Zizek to untie the knot of "psychic cruelty" intrinsic to perversion and therefore "de-sexualize" perverted acts. They do so by theorizing perversion in psychoanalytic concepts of the Oedipus complex, the-Name-of-the-Father and jouissance, and furthermore in the perspective of the clinics of neurosis and psychosis, in dialogue with a clinical praxis, philosophy and literature. Meera Lee is on the faculty of Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, and a psychoanalyst in analytic formation.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 12, 2022).
Series
Palgrave Lacan series.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis in the Bedroom
Chapter 2. Cruelfictions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Derrida, Mignotte
Chapter 3. Intimate Cruelties: Perversions, Sexuality and the Human Animal
Chapter 4. On the Right to Jouissance
Chapter 5. A Perverse Fascination for Death and Jouissance: Bataille, Lacan and the Anti-social Turn in Queer Theory
Chapter 6. Perversion after Freud: from the Cruel Father to the Joycean Clinic
Chapter 7. The Anxiety at the Heart of Perverse Experience: A Clinical Perspective
Chapter 8. The Pornography of His Eyes: A Vignette of Perversion
Chapter 9. Neoliberalism and Liminality: Perverse Cruelties in the Age of the Capitalist Discourse.
