Overview
- Examines and compares Lacan’s and Sartre’s views of love
- Employs understudied elements of Lacan’s seminars and books, including original translations of unpublished material
- Argues that love in the Lacanian schema is the subject’s mad wish to reunite in-itself with for-itself
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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What is love for Sartre and Lacan? In Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan, Sinan Richards examines Sartre’s and Lacan’s writings on love to draw out a distinctly Lacanian conception of love and subjectivity. Richards begins by demonstrating how Sartre’s in itself for itself is a convincing shorthand for Lacan’s central object of study, before presenting and explaining the various aspects of Lacan’s psychophilosophical project to show how, for Lacan, the subject is marked by various pathologies. He argues that, for Lacan, as for Sartre and Schelling before him, the subject is ontologically sick, and, by its very structure, the Oedipus complex produces subjects that are prey to a mental collapse at any moment. As a result, for Lacan, the subject has no choice but to identify with their potential madness, a constitutive aspect of their subjectivity. He concludes by making a compelling case that love in the Lacanian schema is the subject’s mad wish to reunite in itself with for itself, which is an always impossible yet necessary aspect of subjectivity. The book presents fresh insights on Lacan and Sartre that will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, comparative literature and critical theory.
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Book Title: Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan
Authors: Sinan Richards
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45798-2
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45797-5Published: 22 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45800-2Due: 22 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45798-2Published: 21 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, European Literature