Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
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Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight by Shoshana Felman
Felman analyzes Lacans investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacans singular way of making Freuds thought new again, Felman shows how this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary thinking and has redefined insight as such.
This is the best book in English about LacanFelman gives us, with the clarity and precision of a master teacher, Lacan’s vision of Freud’s discovery in all its scope and depth. After reading Felman, not only will we read Lacan differently, we will read Freud differently. -- John P. Muller
Of the major voices creating the astonishing, sometimes overbearing, onrush of French thought in recent decades, none has been harder to accommodate than that of Jacques Lacan. Shoshana Felman’s generous invitation to her reader to participate in her encounter of Lacan’s work does not make our introduction to the work easy, but she may well, for the first time, make it happen. She enacts the opening double message of the encounter of psychoanalysis with philosophy: that the difficulties in reading the originality of another are not barriers to the other but paths toward it; and that the encounter of reading is not a matter of putting on another’s achievements but a process of taking on one’s own change. In thus repaying her debt to Lacan, Shoshana Felman places us in hers. -- Stanley Cavell
Of the major voices creating the astonishing, sometimes overbearing, onrush of French thought in recent decades, none has been harder to accommodate than that of Jacques Lacan. Shoshana Felman’s generous invitation to her reader to participate in her encounter of Lacan’s work does not make our introduction to the work easy, but she may well, for the first time, make it happen. She enacts the opening double message of the encounter of psychoanalysis with philosophy: that the difficulties in reading the originality of another are not barriers to the other but paths toward it; and that the encounter of reading is not a matter of putting on another’s achievements but a process of taking on one’s own change. In thus repaying her debt to Lacan, Shoshana Felman places us in hers. -- Stanley Cavell
Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674471214 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674471210 |
| Title | Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight |
| Author | Shoshana Felman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2004-05-27 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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