Author : Alain Badiou
Release : 2014-05-06
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 35X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jacques Lacan, Past and Present by : Alain Badiou
Download or read book Jacques Lacan, Past and Present written by Alain Badiou. This book was released on 2014-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the French analytic world since Lacan's death—critiquing, for example, the link (or lack thereof) between politics and psychoanalysis in Lacan's work. Their exchange reinvigorates how the the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker is perceived.