Eros and Ethics

Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar VII

AvMarc de De Kesel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del i serien SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

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A comprehensive examination of Lacan's seminar on ethics.In Eros and Ethics, Marc De Kesel patiently exposes the lines of thought underlying Jacques Lacan's often complex and cryptic reasoning regarding ethics and morality in his seventh seminar, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959–1960). In this seminar, Lacan arrives at a rather perplexing conclusion: that which, over the ages, has been supposed to be "the supreme good" is in fact nothing but "radical evil"; therefore, the ultimate goal of human desire is not happiness and self-realization, but destruction and death. And yet, Lacan hastens to add, the morality based on this conclusion is far from being melancholic or tragic. Rather, it results in an encouraging ethics that for the first time in history gives full moral weight to the erotic. De Kesel's close reading uncovers the real scope of Lacan's criticism regarding the moralizing ethics of our time, and is one of the rare books that gives the reader full access to the letter of the Lacanian text.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-05-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:626 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438426099
Översättare:Sigi Jöttkandt

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Marc De Kesel is Senior Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Sigi Jöttkandt is coeditor of S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique and researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van Eyck Academie, the Netherlands.

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Introduction1. A Theory of the SubjectThe Object Relations Theory and Its Moral PremisesLacan’s Target: Maurice BouvetLacanian Object Relations Theory: A Theory of the SubjectEthics and PhantasmIntroducing a Real Object2. Crucial ProblemsOne Ethical Demand versus AnotherA New Form of Guilt?A New Ethics, A New Eroticism?3. Aristotle RevisitedThe Interval between Aristotle and FreudAristotle and Freud against BenthamPleasure, Reality, and Logos4. An Intimately Distant "Thing""Das Ding"A Matter of DistanceHow Much Does a Thing Weigh?5. A Critique of Pure Practical ReasonKant’s Critique of MoralsLacan and the Critique of Practical ReasonThe Lacanian "Critique of Pure Practical Reason"6. The Weight of EnjoymentPleasureSadeThe Commandment to Love Your NeighborAn Ethics of Singularity7. SublimationFrom Doom to DameAn "Object Relational" Concept of SublimationCourtly LoveCulture as SublimationSublimation and Ethics8. Radiant AntigoneAn Anamorphic Glance at TragedyThe Subject in the PictureDesire in the Picture9. The Ethics of PsychoanalysisThe Analytic TollMeasure without MeasureEpilogueNotesAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex