body and the construction of a world, from Heidegger through Lacan /
Christos Tombras.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
1 online resource
The Palgrave Lacan series
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Changing Causes; A Science for the Psyche and a Challenge; Aims and Scope of the Book; Chapter Outline; Bibliography; 2 The Question of Being; Heidegger's Phenomenology; Beings, and the Question of Being; Ontological Difference; The World, and Things in This World; Signs and Language; Truth as Unconcealment; Being-with Others, Authenticity, the "They"; Time, Historicity, and the "Event"; "Turning" Away from Fundamental Ontology; Bibliography; 3 A Critique of Science and Psychoanalysis; From the Ancient to the Modern World; The Era of Galileo
Instincts, Drives and BeyondBibliography; 5 Lacanian Metapsychology; The Subject of Psychoanalysis; Law and Cause in Psychoanalysis; Signifierness and Signifying Chain; The Corporeality of Language: Lalangue; Knowledge, Truth, Metalanguage; Logical Time and Temporality; Theory of Discourses; Jouissance and the Speaking Body; Sexuation; Borromean Clinic; A Method of Discovery or of Exposition?; Mathematical Formalisation and Discourse; From "Anti-philosophy" Back to Philosophy; Bibliography; 6 An Ontology from Discourse; From Heidegger Through Lacan; The Case for an Ontology
Preliminary ConsiderationsWhat Is a Signifier?; Beings, Being, and History; Four Aspects of Time; The Position of the Unconscious; Five Themes of a Discourse Ontology; Speaking Being and the Emergence of Signifierness; Truth as a Rule-Governed Activity; Discursive Constitution of Time; Body, Jouissance and Sexuation; Constructing and Sharing a World; Recasting the Mind/Body Split; The Position of Consciousness; Truth in the Era of Alternative Facts; Bibliography; 7 Conclusion: Psychoanalysis as a Cause; Index
Regional OntologiesOn the Givenness of Space; On the Givenness of Time; Body and the Question of Psyche; Certainty, Truth, Science; Psychoanalysis in Focus; From the Question of Being to Lacan; Bibliography; 4 Back to Freud, and Beyond; Revisiting Freud's Discovery; Basic Assumptions of Psychoanalysis; "Retroaction" and the Concept of Time; Material and Tools of Psychoanalysis; Signifiers and the Origins of Meaning; The Lacanian Unconscious; An Identity from the Mirror; The Three Registers of Experience; Jouissance and the Signifierisation of the Real; Emergence of Desire
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This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heideggers philosophy of being and Jacques Lacans post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging between the two is possible, and lays the foundations of that bridge, starting with Heidegger and proceeding through the work of Lacan. After presenting an overview of key concepts of Heideggers ontology, Tombras sets out an incisive critique of modern science and psychoanalysis, and argues that psychoanalytic theory is vulnerable to this critique. The response comes from Lacans re-reading and recasting of fundamental Freudian insights, and his robust post-Freudian metapsychology. A broad discussion of Lacans work follows, which reveals its rupture with traditional philosophy, and demonstrates how it builds on and then reaches beyond Heideggers critique. This book is informed by the terminology, insights, concepts, hypotheses, and conclusions of both Heidegger and Lacan. It discusses time and the body in jouissance; the emergence of the divided subject and signifierness; truth, agency and the event; and being and mathematical formalisation. Crucially, Tombras describes the ontological recursive construction of a shared ontic world and discusses the limits and historicity of this world. This book opens up new pathways in the study of ontology and epistemology and will appeal in particular to students and scholars of psychoanalysis and philosophy. Christos Tombras is a supervising psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, practicing in London, UK. Dr. Tombras is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK, and lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups. His main research interest is in a dialogue between continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. He has published in both English and Greek.