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- Analyses Lacan’s article ‘The Freudian Thing’ which only appeared in the full English translation in 2006
- Offers insight into Lacan’s notoriously dense and intimating work ‘Ecrits’
- Situates “The Freudian Thing” within the broader sweep of Lacan’s intellectual project
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings.
Reviews
“Adrian Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth is far and away the best and most detailed commentary on one of Lacan’s crucial texts, “The Freudian Thing.” Never before has anyone unpacked this Lacanian position paper with such insight and finesse, relating it to Lacan's other works both prior and subsequent, and rarely has anyone written about his texts with such clarity. A fine example to us all!” (Bruce Fink, Lacanian analyst, translator of Ecrits and of Seminars VIII and XX)
Authors and Affiliations
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Humanities, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
Adrian Johnston
About the author
Adrian Johnston is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico, and a faculty member at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta, USA. His most recent book is Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irrepressible Truth
Book Subtitle: On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’
Authors: Adrian Johnston
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57514-8
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: 978-3-319-57513-1Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86182-1Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57514-8Published: 19 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 257
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Psychoanalysis, Self and Identity, Psychosocial Studies, Classical Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind