Lacan—The Unconscious Reinvented

• Main Author: Soler, Colette
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2014; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Karnac
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
• Subjects: 1901-1981; Criticism and interpretation; Lacan, Jacques; Psychoanalysis; Subconsciousness; Phallic Jouissance; Bungled Action; Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic; Freudian Oedipus; Surplus Jouissance; Lacanian Field; Psychotic Kernel; Analysand’s Speech; Lacan’s Elaboration; Lacan’s Hypothesis; Lacan’s Teaching; Spoken Knowledge; A-semantic Signifier; Seminar Encore; Borromean Knot; Sexual Non-relation; Generalised Perversion; Father Version; English Language Edition; Fundamental Symptom; Lacan’s Expression; Perverse Jouissance; Subject’s Satisfaction; Quilting Points; Seminar XI
• ISBN: 1780490992; 9781780490991
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429476471

Has Jacques Lacan's impact on psychoanalysis really been assessed? His formulation that the Freudian unconscious is "structured like a language" is well-known, but this was only the beginning. There was then the radically new thesis of the "real unconscious". Why this step? Searching for the Ariadne's thread that runs throughout Lacan's ever-evolving teaching, this book illuminates the questions implicit in each step, and sheds new light on his revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts. In tracing these, the author brings out their consequences for the clinic, and in particular, for the subject, for symptoms, for affects, and for the aims of treatment itself. The last section of the book examines the political import of these developments. If many analysts since Freud have dreamt of reinventing psychoanalysis, the author shows the ways in which Lacan succeeded in this reinvention.