An introductory dictionary of lacanian psychoanalysis jacques lacan is arguably the most original and influential psychoanalytic thinker since freud. Lacan on gaze yuanlong ma the school of liberal arts renmin university of china 59 zhong gun cun avenue haidian district, beijing pr china zip code. Philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature kindle edition by kordela, a. Lacan was born in paris, the eldest of emilie and alfred lacans three children. Kiarina kordela argues that both sides ignore the inherent contradictions in spinoza s work, and that lacan s reading of spinoza as well as of descartes, kant, hegel, marx, freud, and wittgensteinoffers a much subtler balance of knowing when to take the philosopher at face value and when to read him against himself.
Kordela although the title, as it stands, contains spinoza and lacan, it should probably also contain kant, marx, and saussure as well, who are all major figures in kordelas argument. The entire text is an argument for reading lacan and spinoza together contra zizek, but she also discusses hardt and negris spinozist marxism. English language teaching assistantships in germany or austria. This paper examines the historical claims about philosophy, dating back to parmenides, that we argue underlie jacques lacans polemical provocations in the mid1970s that his. Feb 01, 2016 pdf from stevin to spinoza from stevin to spinoza. For information, address state university of new york press, 194 washington avenue, suite 305, albany, ny 122102384 production by kelli williams marketing by michael campochiaro library of congress cataloginginpublication data kordela, a. Maintains that lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from spinoza to marx. For lacan also, truth is postevental, although in a different sense than for badiou. Jan 17, 2017 surplus spinoza lacan suny series insinuations philosophy psychoanalysis literature pdf.
Kiarina kordela is a greekamerican philosopher and critical theorist. Surplus spinoza lacan suny series insinuations philosophy psychoanalysis literature pdf. On spinoza wadsworth philosophers series free ebooks. This article reimagines the textual relationship between carl schmitt and walter benjamin as one of much greater affinity than has typically been granted to it. Dialectical materialism vs nominalism a historically transient stage of development, it can only remain a science while the class struggle remains latent or manifests itself only in isolated and sporadic phenomena. Download on spinoza wadsworth philosophers series free epub, mobi, pdf ebooks download, ebook torrents download.
Lacanianism is the study of, and development of, the ideas and theories of the dissident french psychoanalyst jacques lacan. Beginning as a commentary on the writings of freud, lacanianism developed into a new psychoanalytic theory of humankind, and spawned a worldwide movement of its own. The first misunderstanding to be dispelled here is that, for lacan, the event or act, or encounter of the real does not occur in the dimension of truth. Spinoza s amor intellectualis dei intellectual love for god 275. Surplus spinoza lacan suny series insinuations philosophy. And lest we think that deleuze simply ignores hegelian dialectic, we should remember his fascinating 1953. But, kordela argues, there is always also an excess or surplus to structuralism, and this surplus is what the line of thought spinoza marxfreud lacan refers to with the concepts of immanent causality and singular essence spinoza, laborpower marx, and libidoenjoyment freud lacan. If there is only one substance, how can there be a surplus to it. Although the title, as it stands, contains spinoza and lacan, it should probably also contain kant, marx, and saussure as well, who are all major figures in kordelas argument. The freudian ethic is a spinozian ethic, tending to see the truth of. Guilt, ethics, and outoffield in deleuze, lacan, and zizek.
Kiarina kordela argues that both sides ignore the inherent contradictions in spinoza s work, and that lacan s reading of spinoza as well as of descartes, kant, hegel, marx, freud, and wittgenstein offers a much subtler balance of knowing when to take philosophers at face value and when to read him against himself. Opposing both popular neospinozisms deleuze, negri, hardt, israel and their lacanian critiques zizek and badiou, surplus maintains that lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the spinozianmarxian line of thought. Universalism of the common cesare casarino 163 once presupposition and result of capitalist valorization, and much like negri, therefore, argues in marx beyond marx that the theory of value. Jacques marie emile lacan april, 1901 to september 9, 1981 was a major figure in parisian intellectual life for much of the twentieth century. His teachings and writings explore the significance of freuds discovery of the.
Kiarina kordela argues that both sides ignore the inherent contradictions in spinozas work, and that lacans reading of spinoza as well as of descartes, kant, hegel, marx, freud, and wittgenstein offers a much subtler balance of knowing when to take philosophers at face value and when to read him against himself. Pdf download from stevin to spinoza from stevin to. On feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge. Psychoanalysis, however, provides a fundamental concept that inscribes this very. God for spinoza, surplusvalue for marx, and surplusenjoyment for lacan. Spinozas amor intellectualis dei intellectual love for god 275. Kiarina kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on marxs theory of commodity fetishismfrom a. Lacan claims that guilt occupies the field of desire, there is a permanent bookkeeping or debt to be paid via guilt in the subject not giving up on his desire.
Kiarina kordela argues that both sides ignore the inherent contradictions in spinoza s work, and that lacan s reading of spinoza as well as of. Opposing both popular neospinozisms deleuze, negri, hardt, israel and their lacanian critiques z. Spinoza finishes by realizing that his path is a difficult one, and that not everyone will be able to figure it out. The ethics of psychoanalysis lacan provides a basis therefore for arriving at some kind of resolution to the difficulties of working with the objectrelations based andor systemic approaches to. His mother was ardently catholic his younger brother entered a monastery in 1929. His ideas have revolutionised the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and continue to have a major impact in fields as diverse as film studies, literary criticism, feminist theory and philosophy. Walter benjamin, carl schmitt, and the permanent state of exception. His father was a successful soap and oils salesman. It wouldnt make for such a snappy title, obviously, but it would be a truer reflection of the books. Desire is the very essence of man spinoza 1677, iii. Aug 12, 2015 this paper examines the historical claims about philosophy, dating back to parmenides, that we argue underlie jacques lacans polemical provocations in the mid1970s that his position was an. Kiarina kordela argues that both sides ignore the inherent contradictions in spinozas work, and that lacans reading of spinozaas well as of descartes, kant, hegel, marx, freud, and wittgensteinoffers a much subtler balance of knowing when to take the philosopher at face value and when to read him against himself. For, in arguing that, in the object of our desires, we try to find evidence for the presence of the desire of this other that i call here the dark god, lacan posits spinoza as an exception. German studies after macalester in recent years, the following students won u.
Philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature 9780791470206. This article combines contributions from three authors, each of whom writes in scholarly response to brynnar swensons the human network. Jeanluc nancy and philippe lacouelabarthe, the title of the letter. Kordela has explored some of these issues in her surplus.
This surplus to structure leads to a spinozanmarxian. Pdf download from stevin to spinoza from stevin to spinoza. The essays chosen by lacan himself for translation chronologically develop the more humanistic implications of freudian study, and in them lacan espouses his famous linguistic premise that the. Sometimes referred to as the french freud, he is an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis. According to zizek, the lacanianhitchcockian subject is a guilty subject, always already guilty of wanting enjoyment. Surplus spinoza lacan suny series insinuations philosophy psychoanalysis literature read online. Spinozas view of our power over our emotions and of virtue is much like that of plato or aristotle, and may be cast historically as a retelling of their ethical doctrines, but in modified cartesian terms. Marxian political economy with lacanian psychoanalysis in order to. The leitmotiv of lacans seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis is spinozas definition of desire mentioned by lacan in his sixth seminar. See especially pages 12431 where she criticizes the teleology of democracy in empire.
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