Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue

by Alain Badiou

2020-11-24 16:29:38

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,... Read more

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.

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File size7 X 5.5 X 0 in
Print pages112
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication date May 6, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780231165105
Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1937, Alain Badiou is a leading French philosopher. With Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek, he has reclaimed for the radical left the concepts of being, truth and the subject....

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