Overview
- Provides a rigorous engagement with the ideas of Lacan’s strongest critics
- Breaches the division between supporters and detractors of Lacan
- Demonstrates how the figure of the charlatan is essential to Lacan’s discourse of mastery
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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(Russell Grigg, World Association of Psychoanalysis)
“Lacan the Charlatan is much more than a highly engaging study of Lacan’s various critics, detractors, and would-be debunkers. It focuses in on one of the essential problems of his psychoanalytic theory: the nature of authority under conditions of modernity. Clown, guru, master, imposter, insurgent, analyst: Mathews shows how Lacan both incarnated and exposed the impasses of authority, and how his theoretical framework is crucial for understanding the charade of power and mastery we are living in today.”
(Aaron Schuster, author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis)
“Mathews is that rarest of scholar in psychoanalytic studies: someone brave enough to consult works he disagrees with, and then able to produce smart, judicious, and fair-minded commentary and critique. Likewise, his interventions into the work and legacies of the best critics of Lacan, such as Roustang and Borch-Jacobsen, is not just overdue; it is often revelatory. Lacan the Charlatan is a major contribution to the literature – one of interest to scholars of literature, philosophy, and sociology – that will still be worth reading in twenty years.”
(Todd Dufresne, Professor of Philosophy, Lakehead University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lacan the Charlatan
Authors: Peter D. Mathews
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45204-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45203-2Published: 02 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45206-3Published: 02 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45204-9Published: 01 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 228
Topics: History of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theory, Literary Theory