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Jacques Lacan - Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital - 9780745682426 - V9780745682426
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Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital

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Description for Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital Hardcover. "I've been talking to brick walls," says Lacan, meaning: "Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me. " These brick walls are those of the chapel at Sainte-Anne hospital. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .

'I've been talking to brick walls' says Lacan, meaning: 'Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me.'

These brick walls are those of the chapel at Sainte-Anne hospital. Getting back in touch with his younger years as a junior doctor, Lacan amuses himself, improvises, and lets himself go. The intention is a polemical one: the best of his pupils, captivated by the idea that analysis evacuates all prior knowledge, have been raising the banner of non-knowledge, borrowed from Bataille. No, says Lacan, ... Read more

However, two further paths bar access to this one: ignorance (to devote oneself to it with passion is always to consolidate established knowledge), and power (the passion for might obliterates what is revealed by parapraxes). Psychoanalysis teaches the virtues of powerlessness: this, at least, respects the real.

A wise lesson for an era, this era of ours, that has seen bureaucracy, arm in arm with science, dreaming of changing humankind in its deepest reaches - through propaganda, through direct manipulation of the brain, through biotechnology, and even through social engineering. Admittedly things were no better before, but tomorrow they could be far worse.

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Product Details

Publisher
Polity
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745682426
SKU
V9780745682426
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About Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan (1901-81) was one of the twentieth century�s most influential thinkers. His works include Écrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and the many volumes of The Seminar.

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