ABSTRACT

Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art brings together reflections on contemporary philosophy inspired by and in dialogue with Lacanian theory.

Rather than focus on the thinkers who came before Lacan, the editors maintain attention on innovations in contemporary philosophy that owe their emergence to complimentary, critical, direct, or tangential engagement with Lacan. This collection makes one of the first concerted efforts to expand discussions between psychoanalysis and more recent philosophical thinkers while gathering chapters by some of the leading philosophical voices of the present moment. With contributors from around the world, this book has international appeal and is unique in its emphasis on contemporary philosophies inspired or influenced by Lacan.

Philosophy After Lacan will not only appeal to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, but also to students and professors of philosophy, critical theory, psychology, politics, history, and literature.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|20 pages

Lacan's Lesson for Philosophy

Why True Atheism has to be Indirect

chapter 3|23 pages

The Psychiatrist Despite Himself 1

How Sganarelle Parodied the University Discourse Without Knowing It

chapter 4|15 pages

How Not to Kill a Hysteric

chapter 5|12 pages

Feed My Desire

Occupy Wall Street and the Prospect of a Lacanian Gay Science

chapter 6|14 pages

Doomsday Fantasy

The Logic of Logistical Blocking of the Left

chapter 8|15 pages

Lacan with Derrida

chapter 9|25 pages

“Lacan is Our Hegel”

Dialectic from Hegel to Lacan to Badiou

chapter 10|30 pages

The Place of Mathematics

Badiou with Lacan