Lacan and the nonhuman. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gautam Basu Thakur, Jonathan Michael Dickstein.
• Editors: Basu Thakur, Gautam; Dickstein, Jonathan Michael
• Contents: PART I: DEFINITIONS AND CONTEXTS.- Chapter 1: 'Bestiarum Vocabulum Lacaniensis: A Concise Outline of Psychoanalytic Zoology' by Dany Nobus (Brunel University London).- Chapter 2: 'Man is not Entirely in Man' by Kiarina Kordela (Macalester University).- Chapter 3: 'Freud, Lacan, and the Human Nonhumanity of Coitus Interruptus' by Jamieson Webster (Eugene Lang College and New York University).- Chapter 4: ''L'extermination de tout symbolisme des cieux': Reading the Lacanian Letter as Inhuman 'Apparatus' and its Implications for Ecological Thinking' by Kevin Andrew Spicer (University of St. Francis).- Chapter 5: 'Affective Posthumanism' by Marie-Louise Angerer (University of Potsdam).- Chapter 6: 'The Undead: Lacan and Vico, the Critical Link' by Donald Kunze (Penn State University).- Chapter 7: 'The Sovereign Signifier: Agamben and the Nonhuman' by Paul Eisenstein (Otterbein University).- Chapter 8: 'Lacan and the Mechanism of Full Speech' by Ed Pluth (California State University, Chino).- PART 2: APPLICATIONS.- Chapter 9: 'Like an Animal: A Simile Instead of a Subject' by Todd McGowan (University of Vermont).- Chapter 10: 'A horse—no worse? Phobia and the failure of human metaphors in psychoanalysis' by Celeste Pietrusza and Jess Dunn (Duquesne University).- Chapter 11: 'Beckett's 'Marionette Theater': Psychoanalysis, Ontological Violence and The Language of Desubjectification in Malloy and Malone Dies' by Amanda Duncan (Pacific University).- Chapter 12: 'Do Electric Sheep Dream of Androids?' by Calum Neill (Edinburgh Napier University).- Chapter 13: 'ASMR Mania, Trigger Politics, and the Anxiety of Digital Repletion' by Hugh Manon (Clark University).- Chapter 14: 'For the Love of Nonhumanity: Transference and the Anxiety of Algorithmic Critique' by Jonathan Michael Dickstein (Independent Scholar).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 150.195; Psychology; Self; Psychoanalysis; Ontology; Existentialism; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Psychology -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis; Philosophy -- Metaphysics; Philosophy -- Movements -- Existentialism; Philosophy -- Movements -- General; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Social & political philosophy; Psychology -- Personality; The self, ego, identity, personality
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319638171
• Related ISBNs: 9783319638164
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