In Essays on the Pleasure of Death, Ellie Ragland discusses the interconnection of Freud and Lacan's theories, while maintaining that crucial differences between them still exist. Ragland argues, however, that Lacan's "return to Freud" gave coherence to concepts which Freud could never explain: psychosis, narcissism, the body and the death drive. Drawing upon Lacan's untranslated seminars through 1981, Ragland analyzes his theories of the death drive and the concept of jouissance, the driving force behind language and libido. Along with her examination of Lacanian theories about the body, meaning systems, and how they shape reality, Ragland also discusses the ethical problems of psychoanalysis and the ways in which Lacan's work points to the inadequacies of terms like "sexuality" and "gender."
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This book does not really live up to the promise of its title, as it never really explores to any great extent the "pleasures of death," but it is a decent introduction to Lacanian ideas. Ragland never leaves the professor mode of explanation and enlightenment, and her style is hampered by her reluctance to drop her position of mastery, but she nevertheless manages to convey some concepts that may provoke further thinking.
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In Lacan's long exegesis of Freud's texts, he developed a logic of psychoanalysis intended to clarify unfinished or contradictory thoughts in Freud's oeuvre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
second paternal metaphor, primary jouissance, libidinal glue, jouissance phallus, jouissance effects, unary traits, ego fictions, lettre mensuelle, psychotic language, lost jouissance, lacanian ink, sexual jouissance, psychosomatic phenomenon, psychotic speech, partial drives, psychotic subject, ideal ego, fundamental fantasy, unpublished course, fundamental fantasies, phallic signifier, death drive, unpublished seminar, partial objects, logical moments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, New York, Sigmund Freud, Alan Sheridan, Editions du Seuil, Newsletter of the Freudian Field, Melanie Klein, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Bruce Fink, Colette Soler, Department of Psychoanalysis, Three Essays, Jacqueline Rose, Jean Guir, Critical Dictionary, Eric Laurent, Geneva Lecture, Scientific Psychology, Alexandre Stevens, Dennis Porter, Freudian Oedipal, Henri Wallon, Love Letter, Marquis de Sade New!
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In Lacan's long exegesis of Freud's texts, he developed a logic of psychoanalysis intended to clarify unfinished or contradictory thoughts in Freud's oeuvre. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
second paternal metaphor, primary jouissance, libidinal glue, jouissance phallus, jouissance effects, unary traits, ego fictions, lettre mensuelle, psychotic language, lost jouissance, lacanian ink, sexual jouissance, psychosomatic phenomenon, psychotic speech, partial drives, psychotic subject, ideal ego, fundamental fantasy, unpublished course, fundamental fantasies, phallic signifier, death drive, unpublished seminar, partial objects, logical moments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, New York, Sigmund Freud, Alan Sheridan, Editions du Seuil, Newsletter of the Freudian Field, Melanie Klein, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Bruce Fink, Colette Soler, Department of Psychoanalysis, Three Essays, Jacqueline Rose, Jean Guir, Critical Dictionary, Eric Laurent, Geneva Lecture, Scientific Psychology, Alexandre Stevens, Dennis Porter, Freudian Oedipal, Henri Wallon, Love Letter, Marquis de Sade New!
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- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on 13 pages
- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud on 8 pages
- Lacan and the Subject of Language by Ellie Ragland-Sullivan on 5 pages
- The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11) by Jacques Lacan on 5 pages
- Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne by Jacques Lacan on 5 pages
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- The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Abdul R. JanMohamed in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- I Am the Other: Literary Negotiations of Human Cloning (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Maria A. Ferreira on page 70, and Back Matter
- Opera: The Art of Dying (Convergences) by Linda Hutcheon in Back Matter
- Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Mark Pizzato in Back Matter
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