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Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan

Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan

Ragland, Ellie

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Death & DyingGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0415907225
ISBN13: 9780415907224
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 6 1994
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Essays on the Pleasure of Death, Ellie Ragland discusses the interconnection of Freud and Lacan's theories, while maintaining that crucial differences between them still exist. Ragland argues, however, that Lacan's return to Freud gave coherence to concepts which Freud could never explain: psychosis, narcissism, the body and the death drive. Drawing upon Lacan's untranslated seminars through 1981, Ragland analyzes his theories of the death drive and the concept of jouissance, the driving force behind language and libido. Along with her examination of Lacanian theories about the body, meaning systems, and how they shape reality, Ragland also discusses the ethical problems of psychoanalysis and the ways in which Lacan's work points to the inadequacies of terms like sexuality and gender.

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