Origins of Desire & Ethics of the Drive in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-18
• Mått: 129 x 198 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 250 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Routledge Guides to Lacan
• Antal sidor: 118
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041327905

• Freudiansk psykologi
• Filosofiska discipliner

Samuel McCormick, PhD is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University and the host of Lectures on Lacan, a learning community dedicated to clear, coherent, and accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

“Reading McCormick's book on Lacan's Seminar XI cost me a sleepless night, for two simple reasons. The subtitle of his book could be: "Everything You Wanted to Know about Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask McCormick." The effect of his reading is magic: you again and again ask yourself, "But things are so clear now, why didn't I get it myself before?" And the second reason is a variation of this subtitle: "Everything You Wanted to Know about Lacan but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan Himself." McCormick achieves clarity not by reading Lacan through another (structuralist, Hegelian, feminist...) frame, but just by being attentive to Lacan's precise formulations, to the literal texture of his seminar. In an ideal community, Lacan's Seminar XI should be printed in a single volume together with McCormick's text!”Slavoj Žižek, International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and Senior Researcher at the University of Ljubljana“Samuel McCormick’s commentary on Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XI provides the perfect introduction not only to that crucial seminar but to all of Lacan’s notoriously difficult thought. McCormick guides the reader through all of Lacan’s important ideas by stripping away the jargon and giving us a much more readable version of Lacan. He does this, amazingly, without a moment of dumbing down Lacan’s ideas, a feat that makes this book not to be missed.”Todd McGowan, Professor English and Director of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont“We are often told that Lacan' Seminar XI is a pivotal seminar, a crucial turning-point in Lacan's teaching; yet it has seldom been illuminated with the expository originality and flair that it deserves. McCormick achieves just this. He transports us to the lecture theatre at the Ecole Normale Superiere, where we take a seat, amongst luminaries of the day, so as to witness Lacan's 'post-excommunication' performance. The pulse and cadence of Lacan's thinking, his redefinition of the drive, the re-conceptualization of transference, the new urgency afforded the concept of repetition, the dimension of ethics, all of these are made vital again in McCormick's distinctive manner. Simultaneously grounded and exploratory, accessible and instructive to newcomers and longstanding scholars and practitioners of Lacanian psychoanalysis, McCormick has produced an indispensable guide to a watershed Seminar, to a historical moment in Lacanian psychoanalysis.”Derek Hook, Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria

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