A Psychoanalysis of Act and Action: An Itinerary through Lacan, Philosophy, and Crime
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 198
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98268
- ISBN 13 : 9781041071426
- ISBN 10 : 1041071426
Table of Contents
1. Action and the Psychoanalytic Issues of a Concept. A Strategy Towards a New Conception of Action
2. Sifting Action Through the Strainer of Desire and Psychoanalysis: The Graph of Desire (Part I)
3. Reinterpreting Action Through the Drive and Fantasy: The Graph of Desire (Part II)
4. The Psychoanalytic Setting as the Linguistic Key of Action
5. Paradoxes of Action: The passage à l’acte and Unmotivated Crime
6. The Socio-Anthropological Background of Action: Between Determinism and Free Will
7. Phantasy and Fundamental Fantasy: A Tour Through Anglo-analytic Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
8. The Serial Killer’s Act and the passage à l’acte, or How to Describe Radical Action
9. A Critical Appraisal of the Ethics of Action: A Brief Psychoanalytic Review
10. Action Caught up in the Drift of the Group: The Collective Push of Action Display
Conclusion
References to J. Lacan’s Works
References to S. Freud’s Works
General References
Index