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Author Zafiropoulos, Markos

Title Lacan and Lévi-Strauss or the return to Freud, 1951-1957 / Markos Zafiropoulos ; translated by John Holland
Published London : Karnac, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) : illustrations
Series CFAR Library
Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research library.
Contents COVER; CONTENTS; NOTE TO THE READER AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The transcendence of the imaginary by the symbolic or the mirror stage and the symbolic function; CHAPTER TWO: The subject receives from the Other his own message in an inverted form: An investigation; CHAPTER THREE: The name of the father, psychosis and phobia; CONCLUSION; POSTLUDE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's theories of the symbolic function, of the power of language, of the role of the father and even of the unconscious itself owe a major debt to Levi-Strauss. Lacan and Le
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the French
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Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
SUBJECT Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 fast
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast
Lévi-Strauss, Claude fast
Subject Psychoanalysis and culture.
Psychoanalysis -- History -- 20th century
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Theory
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and culture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849407977
1849407975
Other Titles Lacan et Lévi-Strauss ou le retour à Freud, 1951-1957. English