A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking. This book argues that a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our relation to law, tradition and morality, as well as our understanding of guilt, responsibility and desire. CALUM NEILL is a lecturer in Critical Psychology and Discourse Analysis atEdinburgh Napier University, UK. His research focuses on conceptions of subjectivity and intersubjectivity and related questions of ethics, responsibility and connectivity. . INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction bA Brief History of Ethics - PART I: THE SUBJECT - Lacan's Return to Descartes - The Graph of Desire - objet petit a and Fantasy - PART II: ETHICS - Guilt - The Law - Judgement - PART III: THE OTHER - Misrecognising the Other - Loving Thy Neighbour - Beyond Difference- PART IV: THE SOCIAL - Ethics and the Other - The Impossibility of Ethical Examples - Eating the Book - References - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29409-7
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés