Overview
- Provides an unprecedented and comprehensive English-language introduction to Jacques Lacan’s use of topology in psychoanalysis
- Explores the relation between Lacan and Freud through topology
- Adds to the debate regarding Lacan’s self-proclaimed status as an ‘anti-philosopher’
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan’s theories, as well as readings of texts that have been largely ignored, it provides a thorough critical interpretation of his work. Will Greenshields argues that Lacan achieved his most pedagogically clear and successful presentations of his most essential and notoriously complex concepts – such as structure, the subject and the real – through the deployment of topology. The book will help readers to better understand Lacan, and also those concepts that have become prevalent in various intellectual discourses such as contemporary continental philosophy, politics and the study of ideology, and literary or cultural criticism.
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About the author
Will Greenshields is a contributor to the Reframing Psychoanalysis website which is a focus for research in psychoanalysis across the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE). He completed his PhD thesis on Lacan and topology at the University of Sussex, where he also taught in the area of Critical Theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing the Structures of the Subject
Book Subtitle: Lacan and Topology
Authors: Will Greenshields
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47533-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47532-5Published: 16 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83761-1Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47533-2Published: 07 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Psychology, Topology