Overview
- Explores the metaphor of silence found in psychoanalysis, philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, music and art
- Engages directly with the most up-to-date scholarship in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Develops questions opened up but not answered by contemporary Lacanian theorist Mladen Dolar
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language. Unlike other disciplines and discourses the authors do not treat silence as a mystical-impossible beyond, at the cost of demoting the value of language and thought. Rather than treating silence with awe and wonder, this book puts silence to work, and it does so in order to deal with the inevitable alienation that comes with becoming speaking-beings. This illuminating book will be of great interest to scholars of Lacan and the psychosocial, as well as more broadly to philosophers and linguists alike.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ed Pluth is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Chico, USA. He is the author of Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject, Badiou: A Philosophy of the New and the co-editor with Jan De Vos of Neuroscience and Critique.
Cindy Zeiher is a lecturer in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She writes and publishes in the fields of Lacanian psychoanalysis and continental philosophy and is co-editor for CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: On Silence
Book Subtitle: Holding the Voice Hostage
Authors: Ed Pluth, Cindy Zeiher
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28147-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot 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, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28146-5Published: 20 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28147-2Published: 10 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 102
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, Psychosocial Studies, Philosophy of Mind, Social Philosophy