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is work offers a philosophical interpretation and reassessment of psychoanalysis that places it in relationship to the larger stream of ideas forming our world and, at the same time, clarifies its original contribution to our understanding of the human situation. Johnston draws on Jacques Lacan's oeuvre in conjunction with certain philosophical resources - elements from transcendental philosophy, structuralism, and phenomenology - to rectify the inconsistencies within the Freudian metapsychological model of drive. In doing so, he helps to answer a question haunting Freud at the end of his career: Why is humanity plagued by a perpetual margin of discontent, despite technological and cultural progress? In Time Driven, Johnston is able to make sense of Freud's metapsychology both as a whole and in its historical development of Lacan's reinterpretation of Freud, and of the place of both Freud and Lacan in modern philosophy.

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Author:   Adrian Johnston ,  Slavoj Zizek
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780810122055

ISBN 10:   0810122057
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   30 July 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword: A Paraliax View on Drives, by Slavoj Zizek; Preface: The Unbearable Burden of Libidinal Liberation; Introduction: The Critique of Pure Enjoymanl - or, Jouissance does not exist; Part One: Metapsychology, Temporality, and Structure; Chapter One: The Temporal Repressed in Freadian Psychoanalysis; Chapter Two: The Temporal Logic of Jacques Lacan; Chapter Three: Psychoanalysis and Modern Rationalism; Chapter Four: Kant end the Conditions of Possibility for the Psychoanalytic Subject; Part Two: The Splitting of the Drive; Chapter Five: The Fundamental Conflicts of Psychoanalysis; Chapter Six: The Unfolding of the Freudian Drive; Chapter Seven: The Lacanian Drive Topas; Chapter Eight: The Barred Trieb; Chapter Nine: The Axis of Iteration (S-P); Chapter Ten: The Axis of Alteration (A-O); Conclusion: The Uniquely Human Double Bind

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ADRIAN JOHNSTON is Chair of and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta.

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