Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences: The One and the Many
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : August 2023
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 96
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 97333
- ISBN 13 : 9781032515977
- ISBN 10 : 103251597X
Also by Raul Moncayo
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Explores how aspects of psychoanalysis intersect with elements of social and cultural theory. Builds on the work of Slavoj Zizek regarding Lacan's concept of jouissance. Highly interdisciplinary work which presents a Freudian-Lacanian approach to the social sciences, conceding a central role to subjectivity as a legitimate approach to the study of leadership, primate research, social psychology, culture, and political theory.
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This original text presents an innovative interdisciplinary approach, where key concepts within different paradigms - such as jouissance in Lacanian theory, surplus value in Marxist theory, and nothingness/emptiness in the Buddhist tradition - relate to each other, challenging the boundaries of traditional political theory, and inviting us to rethink the relations among power, ethics, and civil society.
Martin Hopenhayn, social theorist for United Nations; author, Beyond Nihilism and the Sense of Belonging in Fragmented Societies
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Primal Horde of Primates and early Humans
2. The Leader and the Group
3. Benevolent Tyranny and Love as a Motive for Repression
4. The Group
5. The Polis
6. Practice and Labor as Undivided Activity, Alienated Labor, and the Question of Surplus Value
7. The One and the Many
8. Equality, Inequality, Meritocracy, Excellence, Talent, Defect and Disability
9. Animal and Human Spirits or Jouissance in the Economy
Appendix I. An outline of the History of the Symbolic Order or the History of Human Wisdom and Knowledge
Appendix II. Theory of the Libido and Lacan’s Three Jouissances: Freud, Jung, Bion, Lacan, and Moncayo
About the Author(s)
Raul Moncayo is supervising analyst, founding member, and faculty of the San Francisco Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis (LSP). He has a private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. He is visiting professor and adjunct faculty both in the US and other countries. Dr Moncayo is former director of training for a large psychiatric clinic for the City of San Francisco, and the author of five books and multiple papers published in professional journals.
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