Search for Clarity (eBook)

Science and Philosophy in Lacan's Oeuvre

Jean-Claude Milner (Autor)

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2020
176 Seiten
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4286-2 (ISBN)

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In A Search for Clarity, Jean-Claude Milner argues that although Jacques Lacan s writing is notoriously obscure his oeuvre is entirely clear. In a discussion that considers the difference between the esoteric and exoteric works of Plato and Aristotle, Milner argues that Lacan s oeuvre is to be found in his published writings alone, not his transcribed seminars, and that these published writings contain his official doctrine. Thus, Lacan s oeuvre is already complete, even though many of his seminars remain unpublished.According to Milner, Lacan s fundamental idea is that the subject psychoanalysis works on is the subject of science. Milner suggests that this is a supplement to Alexandre Koyre s and Alexandre Kojeve s accounts of modern science, for which mathematization and a break from the ancient episteme were key.A Search for Clarity is the definitive statement on how Lacan viewed the relationship between psychoanalysis and science, and on how Lacan s thinking evolved as he struggled to draw out the consequences of the equation he posited between psychoanalysis and science. Milner s work on Lacan has been essential reading in French for decades. This English translation will make his illuminating work accessible to a broader audience.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2020
• Übersetzer: Ed Pluth
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8101-4286-4 / 0810142864
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4286-2 / 9780810142862