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The not-two :logic and God in Lacan
In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan's effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an assessment of its broader implications for philosop…
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- 9780262335034
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 251 pages).
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Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology
Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andre Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital techno…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages).
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The trouble with pleasure :Deleuze and psychoanalysis
An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
"Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague excl…
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- 9780262305983
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 145 pages)
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A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology
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- 9780262272407
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- 1 online resource (338 pages)
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Freud's Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277211
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- 1 online resource (245 pages) :illustrations
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On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud
How the couch became an icon of self-knowledge and self-reflection as well as a site for pleasure, transgression, and healing. The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the C…
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- 9780262341639
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What is sex?
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from tal…
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- 9780262341905
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- 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) :illustrations.
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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory
Clinical Encounters in Sexuality makes an intervention into the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and sexuality studies, in an effort to think about a range of issues relating to sexuality from a clinical psychoanalytic perspective. This book concentrates on a number of concepts, namely identity, desire, pleasure, perversion, ethics and discourse. The editors, Noreen Giffney and Eve Watson, hav…
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