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Sophistry has long been philosophy’s bad other, yet in many ways, its emphasis on words and performativity remain more important than philosophical Truth. This book celebrates an underground survival of the sophistical tradition in the work of work of psychoanalysis, and its determination to take seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation.

Table of Contents

Prologue: “How Kind of You to Recognize Me” | 1
1. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves | 5
2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time | 23
3. Logos-Pharmakon | 39
4. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan’s Anti-Aristotelianism | 59
5. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan’s Ab-Aristotelianism | 93
Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish | 127
Acknowledgments | 133
Translator’s Note: Performing Untranslatability | 135
Notes | 141
Index | 171

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 22 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9780823285754
      978-0823285754
      ISBN-10 0823285758
      Also in:
      Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Structuralism and Post-structuralism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Sophistry has long been philosophy’s bad other, yet in many ways, its emphasis on words and performativity remain more important than philosophical Truth. This book celebrates an underground survival of the sophistical tradition in the work of work of psychoanalysis, and its determination to take seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue: “How Kind of You to Recognize Me” | 1
      1. Doxography and Psychoanalysis, or Relegating Truth to the Lowly Status It Deserves | 5
      2. The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time | 23
      3. Logos-Pharmakon | 39
      4. Sense and Nonsense, or Lacan’s Anti-Aristotelianism | 59
      5. The Jouissance of Language, or Lacan’s Ab-Aristotelianism | 93
      Epilogue: The Drowning of a Fish | 127
      Acknowledgments | 133
      Translator’s Note: Performing Untranslatability | 135
      Notes | 141
      Index | 171

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