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Writing the Structures of the Subject
Will Greenshields
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Description for Writing the Structures of the Subject
Hardback. Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMA; JMAF; JMB; MMH; PBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan’s theories, as well as readings of texts that have been largely ignored, it provides a thorough critical interpretation of his work. Will Greenshields argues that Lacan achieved his most pedagogically clear and successful presentations of his most essential and notoriously complex concepts – such as structure, the subject and the real – through the deployment of topology. The book will help readers to better understand ... Read more
This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan’s theories, as well as readings of texts that have been largely ignored, it provides a thorough critical interpretation of his work. Will Greenshields argues that Lacan achieved his most pedagogically clear and successful presentations of his most essential and notoriously complex concepts – such as structure, the subject and the real – through the deployment of topology. The book will help readers to better understand ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
The Palgrave Lacan Series
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319475325
SKU
V9783319475325
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About Will Greenshields
Will Greenshields is a contributor to the Reframing Psychoanalysis website which is a focus for research in psychoanalysis across the Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE). He completed his PhD thesis on Lacan and topology at the University of Sussex, where he also taught in the area of Critical Theory.
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