Lacan and the Biblical Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Author:   Itzhak Benyamini
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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Pages:   293
Publication Date:   09 December 2023
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Author:   Itzhak Benyamini
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.529kg
ISBN:  

9783031399688


ISBN 10:   3031399684
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   09 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1 Introduction: Life and Celestial Jerusalem. 2 The Clinical Experience and the Birth of the Symbolic Order: Lacan’s Theoretical Leap in 1953. 2.1 “The Neurotic’s Individual Myth”. 2.2 “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis”. 3 “Family Complexes” (1938): An Early Model of the Return to Freud and the Conceptualization of the Father. 3.1 The Splits of the Father in Freud’s Theory: Between the Biological-Concrete and the Biological-Conceptual. 3.2 Lacan’s Criticism: The Family as a Sociocultural Institute. 3.3 Splitting—and Saving—the-Father. 3.4 The Father’s Fall from Grace: The Invention of Psychoanalysis and Totalitarianism. 3.5 Extracting the Jewish and Paternal in Bergson. 3.6 Judaism and the Good Father. 4 Return to the Logos: Between Dualism and Extimacy. 4.1 The Logos: From Heraclitus to John. 4.2 Logos in Christianity, Heidegger and Lacan. 4.3 The Subject’s Extimacy and the Other. 4.4 In the Beginning Was the Word. 4.5 The Body-Signifier Dualism. 4.6 The Logos and… Collective Dualism. 4.7 Demythologization and the Logos. 5 Lacan and Jung (1): The Threatening Affinity. 5.1 The Slippery Slope to Occultism. 5.2 Jung and Freud. 5.3 Weltanschauung and Anti-ideology. 5.4 The Non-libidinal Libido. 5.5 The Imagined Similarity Between Lacan and Jung. 5.6 Abstraction and Obscurity. 5.6.1 Lacan and Jung’s common denominator. 5.6.2 Freud’s Rejection of Jung’s Style. 6 Lacan and Jung (2): The Difference Between them and the Judeo-Christian Tradition. 6.1 Lacan’s Struggle Against Jungianism and the Difference Between the Imaginary and the Symbolic. 6.2 Jung’s Psychotic Imagination and Freud’s Materialism. 6.3 Anti-Jungianism and Anti-Gnosticism: Split in the Face of Harmony. 7 Lévi-Strauss and Lacan following ‘Totem and Taboo’: What Is a Collective Unconscious?. 7.1 The Anxiety of Metaphysics. 7.2 The Jealous Father of ‘Totem and Taboo’. 7.3 The Processing of the Theory of Lévi-Strauss in the Lacanian Discourse. 7.4 Lacan Following Lévi-Strauss: The Mechanism of Language and the Metaphysical Danger. 7.5 Lévi-Strauss and Lacan Rereading ‘Totem and Taboo’. 7.6 Jung, Freud, Lamarckism. 7.7 Lacan’s Processing of Freud’s Lamarckism. 8 “I am who I am” (“Eheye asher Eheye”): The Name-of-the-Father, the Other, and the Biblical Position. 8.1 The Name-of-the-Father and Psychosis. 8.2 Science and Psychoanalysis following the Cogito. 8.3 Lacan’s Seminar III: The God of Schreber. 8.4 Seminar III: The Constitution of Modern Science and the Judeo-Christian Tradition. 8.5 ‘I am who I am’. 8.6 ‘I am who I am’ in Seminar III. 8.7 Following Racine and Jansenism. 8.8 God of Speech and Desire. 8.9 The Anti-Metaphysical Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Lacanianism. 9 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Judaism, and Christianity: Reading Seminar VII. 9.1 Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Biology. 9.2 The Real, Jouissance, and the Thing. 9.3 The Theological Origins of Lacanian Ethics. 9.4 The Law and the Thing in the Bible and in Paul. 9.5 “Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself ” and Freud’s Theory of Narcissism. 9.6 The Law of Love and the Death of the God-Father in Paul and Lacan. 9.7 The Two Faces of Freud’s Moses. 10 The Pleasures of Baroque: An Epilogue on Late Lacan.

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Itzhak Benyamini teaches at the Tel Aviv University and Bezalel Jerusalem, Israel. He is the editor of Resling publishing house and the author of a number of books, including Narcissist Universalism (Bloomsbury, 2012) and A Critical Theology of Genesis (Palgrave, 2016).

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