Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

A Lacanian Perspective

Colette Soler author David Kirkman translator Devra Simiu translator Chantal Degril translator Camille Germanos translator Daphne Tamarin translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:22nd Dec '23

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Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching.

In psychoanalysis, the subject who is summoned “to speak himself” is by definition lacking in identity. His question is “What am I?” but, as he is only represented by his words, his being is “always elsewhere”, within other words that are yet to come. Thus a paradox: one seeks via speech the identity of a being who, through his speech, is not identifiable. Yet the fact remains, he has a body, and he is riveted to sufferings that psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan, identified, which are not accidental, which we call repetition and symptom, and which shift the question of identity because a One, real, is at play in them.

Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter will be key reading for the study and research of Lacanian psychoanalysis and all practitioners interested in Lacan’s teaching, as well as other discourses such as philosophy, art, literature and history.

ISBN: 9780367342036

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 210g

100 pages