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Lacan the Charlatan

Lacan the Charlatan

Mathews, Peter D.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Lacan

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3030452034
ISBN13: 9783030452032
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 2 2020
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989. He stated that Lacan was a charlatan - not that his ideas were flawed or wrong, but that his entire discourse was fraudulent, an accusation that has since been repeated by many other critics. Examining the arguments of key anti-Lacanian critics, Mathews weighs and contextualizes the legitimacy of Lacan's engagements with structural linguistics, mathematical formalization, science, ethics, Hegelian dialectics, and psychoanalysis. The guiding thread is Lacan's own recurrent interrogation of authority, which inhabits an ambiguous zone between mastery and charlatanry. This book offers a novel contribution to the field for students and scholars of psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, critical and literary theory.

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