Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’

Author:   Adrian Johnston
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
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Pages:   257
Publication Date:   28 September 2017
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Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’


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This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings.

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Author:   Adrian Johnston
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   4.703kg
ISBN:  

9783319575131


ISBN 10:   3319575139
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   28 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Returning to the Vienna of Freud.- 1. Situation in Time and Place of this Exercise.- 2. The Adversary.- 3. The Thing Speaks Itself.- 4. Parade.- 5. The Thing’s Order.- 6. Resistance to the Resisters.- 7. Interlude.- 8. The other’s Discourse.- 9. Imaginary Passion.- 10. Analytic Action.- 11. The Locus of Speech.- 12. Symbolic Debt.- 13. The Training of Analysts to Come.- Conclusion: Taking it to the Dogs.

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This book is a textually faithful, painstaking exposition of Lacan's seminal ecrits `The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis' ... . The book is stimulating and enlightening (and, importantly, clear) reading for both the uninitiated and initiated alike. (Gregory Trotter, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 51, 2018)


“This book is a textually faithful, painstaking exposition of Lacan’s seminal écrits ‘The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis’ … . The book is stimulating and enlightening (and, importantly, clear) reading for both the uninitiated and initiated alike.” (Gregory Trotter, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 51, 2018)


This book is a textually faithful, painstaking exposition of Lacan's seminal ecrits 'The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis' ... . The book is stimulating and enlightening (and, importantly, clear) reading for both the uninitiated and initiated alike. (Gregory Trotter, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 51, 2018)


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Adrian Johnston is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta, USA. His most recent book is Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers. 

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