![]() 1 350 Cobblestone Circle, McKees Rocks, PA. ![]() Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce 'the death of the subject,' Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once. This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. The notion of love in Freuds work and in Lacans work is explored here in a preliminary fashion. Love and/in psychoanalysis: a commentary on Lacans reading of Platos. 25.69 - 37.99 9 Used from 25.69 19 New from 33.89. It will be of great value to students and scholars of psychology and of the humanities generally, and to analysts of all persuasions. Bruce FINK, Psychoanalyst in Private Practice Cited by 435. Bruce Fink, protean in his translations and commentaries on Lacan, has collated multiple approaches from Lacan (and Freud). This first-ever commentary on Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference, provides readers with a clear and systematic introduction to Lacan's views on love. ![]() Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions - from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism - and providing an in-depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan's paradoxical claim that "love is giving what you don't have." He shows how the emptiness or lack we feel within ourselves gets covered over or entwined in love, and how it is possible and indeed vital to give something to another that we feel we ourselves don't have. Examines Lacans key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.This collection offers the first sustained, in-depth commentary on Seminar XX, Encore, considered the cornerstone of Lacan’s work on the themes of sexual difference, knowledge, jouissance, and love. Can psychoanalysis - with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters - give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love? Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about "what love really is"? In this lively and wide-ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can. Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle. This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again. “Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life.
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