{"product_id":"studying-lacans-seminar-vii-9780367420338","title":"Studying Lacans Seminar VII","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudying Lacan's Seminar VII\u003c\/em\u003e offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan's ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan's ethics offer to the field of psychoanalytic thought today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume interrogates the seminar with fresh voices and situated curiosities and perspectives, making for a compellingly exciting range of explorations of the crucial matters related to an ethics of psychoanalysis. The chapters question and tease out the paradoxes Lacan draws attention to in his seminar of 19591960, and in addition, they offer radical engagements with the seminar in light of theories of racism, inequality, capitalism, education, and subjectivity. The key elements in Lacan's seminar are explained, debated, and reconsidered with Antigone, \u003ci\u003edas Ding\u003c\/i\u003e, and the inevitable \u003ci\u003ene céder pas sur son désir \u003c\/i\u003e duly unpacked, examined, and ruminated upon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudying Lacan's Seminar VII \u003c\/em\u003ewill be of interest to psychoanalytic schola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacan’s promotion of desire as the crucial concept of an ethics for psychoanalysis, has transformed scholarly inquiry on ethics \u003ci\u003etout court\u003c\/i\u003e. This exciting and indispensable volume brings together contributions by major theorists to offer a wealth of original approaches to the most challenging questions raised by Lacan’s seventh seminar. Far from a compilation of received wisdom on Lacan, this volume approaches the seminar with fresh perspectives and invigorating explorations of crucial matters for an ethics of psychoanalysis. Can there be an ethics without positing a sovereign good or a categorical imperative? Can an ethics of desire be anything other than hedonism? How does a theory of \u003ci\u003ejouissance\u003c\/i\u003e elucidate the relationship between good and evil? What can Lacan’s ideas on courtly love teach us about racism or the concept of \u003ci\u003edas Ding \u003c\/i\u003ehelp us understand about our investment in commodity fetishism? Is Antigone’s fidelity to her desire an example of a psychoanalytic ethics or a cautionary tale about the death drive? In astute and rigorously argued discussion, these essays offer both superb guidance to the seminar’s arguments and a rich demonstration of the value of psychoanalysis for contemporary thinking on ethics. - \u003cb\u003eMolly Anne Rothenberg, Professor Emeritus of English, Tulane University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are the ethics of psychoanalysis, and what is its relation to the desire to do good? This impressive and illuminating collection of essays provides not only careful readings of Lacan’s challenging seminar but also brilliant interpretations of how concepts as enigmatic and provocative as \u003ci\u003edas Ding\u003c\/i\u003e and ‘not giving ground relative to desire’ can be applied to the practice of psychoanalysis and to political problems. The authors in this book do not stop at pointing out key ways in which the desire to do good actually enacts harm, but shed fresh new light on ways ‘The Ethics of Psychoanalysis’ can illuminate radical ethical stances within psychoanalytic praxis and with respect to racism, social inequalities, and capitalist relations of production. The price to pay for following your desire to read this book is well worth it! - \u003cb\u003eStephanie Swales, Psychoanalyst, and Associate Professor University of Dallas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacan’s \u003ci\u003eSeminar VII\u003c\/i\u003e is without any doubt one of his richest and most intriguing seminars. From the commentaries on Heidegger, \u003ci\u003edas Ding\u003c\/i\u003e, de Sade, Kant, courtly love, to the extensive commentary on \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, the seminar virtually bristles with unexpected, audacious and groundbreaking ideas that have irrevocably changed the way we look at these authors and notions. This volume not only lives up to the challenge of commenting on such a work, but also retains its exciting appeal and conceptual boldness. It is not merely an academic discussion of Lacan's ideas and concepts, but effectively brings these ideas to life in our contemporary context. What is a “Supreme-Being-in-Evil”? Why is ethics different from morality? Could courtly love be related to hysteria? Could it be related to racism and “the sublimation of race”? How does \u003ci\u003edas Ding\u003c\/i\u003e relate to the origin of value? What are the persistent paradoxes of desire? And what about the price of freedom? This panoramic overview of the contributions cannot do them justice, of course, but it can certainly alert us to the fact that something truly significant and thought-provoking is happening here. - \u003cb\u003eAlenka Zupančič, Professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the Institute for Philosophy in Ljubljana and the European Graduate School, Switzerland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it even possible to imagine a better team of commentators to tackle Lacan’s Seminar VII afresh? \u003ci\u003eStudying Lacan’s Seminar VII\u003c\/i\u003e comprises the top echelon of Lacan scholars, offering not only definitive but also highly original perspectives on those topics - evil, morality, courtly love, tragedy, sublimation, freedom, desire - that makes \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003eamongst the most impactful of all Lacan’s seminars. The retroactive influence of these essays - which traverse the domains of philosophy, culture, politics and the clinic - is such that the seminar is made newly vital, newly essential to any questioning of the ethical in the 21st century. - \u003cb\u003eDerek Hook, Clinical Supervisor and Professor, Duquesne University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote on the Editor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEditor’s Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Supreme Being-in-Evil, Criminal Good, and Criminal Desire: Lacan After Antigone, After Sade, After Kant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLorenzo Chiesa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Ethics \u003ci\u003eContra \u003c\/i\u003eMorality in Lacan’s Seminar VII (and Implications for Contemporary Education)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJones Irwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Courtly Love, the \u003ci\u003eHommosexuelle \u003c\/i\u003e, and the Hysteric in \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics \u003c\/i\u003eof Lacan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila L. Cavanagh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The Sublimation of Race: From the Courtly Lady to the Derelict White Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheldon George\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Ethics Amid Commodities: \u003ci\u003eDas Ding \u003c\/i\u003eand the Origin of Value\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTODD Mcgowan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 On Tragedy and Desire in the Ethics of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDany Nobus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Price of Freedom: On Not Giving Ground Relative to Desire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Meehan O’Callaghan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 While Not Having the Last Word . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalum Neill\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017892725079,"sku":"9780367420338","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367420338.jpg?v=1750775013","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studying-lacans-seminar-vii-9780367420338","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}