Lacan's return to antiquity : : between nature and the gods / / Oliver Harris.

Lacan’s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan’s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a twentieth-century theory of psychology? In Lacan’s case, the issue has an additional ed...

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'Surprised by truth' : Socrates, Plato and the Lacanian seminar
  • 2. The myth of sexual reproduction
  • 3. Creating and castration : making something out of nothing
  • 4. Exploiting tragedy : psychoanalysis, fate and free will
  • 5. Unknown pleasures : orgasms and epistemology.