Alireza Taheri

Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity

Spectre of Madness

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Produktbeschreibung

The current rise in new religions and the growing popularity of New Ageism is concomitant with an increasingly anti-philosophical sentiment marking our contemporary situation. More specifically, it is philosophical and psychoanalytic reason that has lost standing faced with the triumph of post-secular "spirituality". Combatting this trend, this treatise develops a theoretical apparatus based on Hegelian speculative reason and Lacanian psychoanalysis. With the aid of this theoretical apparatus, the book argues how certain conceptual pairs appear opposed through an operation of misrecognition christened, following Hegel, as "diremption". The failure to reckon with identities-in-difference relegates the subject to more vicious contradictions that define central aspects of our contemporary predicament. The repeated thesis of the treatise is that the deadlocks marking our contemporary situation require renewed engagement with dialectical thinking beyond the impasses of common understanding. Only by embarking on this philosophical-psychoanalytic "path of despair" (Hegel) will we stand a chance of achieving "joyful wisdom" (Nietzsche). Developing a unique dialectical theory based on readings of Hegel, Lacan and ¿i¿ek, in order to address various philosophical and psychoanalytic questions, this book will be of great interest to anyone interested in German idealism and/or psychoanalytic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780367523077
• ISBN-10: 0367523078
• Artikelnr.: 59997927

Autorenporträt

Alireza Taheri provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy in private practice in Toronto where he is also actively involved in teaching Lacanian theory at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. Alireza is a permanent faculty member of HamAva Psychoanalytic Institute in Tehran (Iran) where he teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice. He is also engaged in writing articles on philosophy and psychoanalysis and is presently the editor-in-chief and book review editor of Psychoanalytic Discourse (an independent international journal for the clinical, theoretical and cultural discussion of psychoanalysis).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Paradox of Self-Reflection Variation 1: The Diremptive
Remains Variation 2: The Triumph of Dialectical "Lower" Terms Variation 3:
Speculative Topology Variation 4: Vicious Dialectical Reversals Variation
5: Faith and Reason Variation 6: The Paradoxes of Love Variation 7: The
Paradox of Identity Variation 8: Subject and Collective Variation 9:
Ausstossung and Verwerfung Variation 10: Symbolic Murder and Suicide
Variation11: Generational Difference: Parent and Child Variation 12: Power
Difference: Analysand and Analyst Variation 13: Sexual Difference: Man and
Woman Variation 14: The Paradox of a Boundary Without a Limit Variation 15:
Good and Evil Variation 16: Truth and Lies Variation 17: Thrownness and
Autonomy Variation 18: Life and Death Variation 19: The Force and Frailty
of the Law Variation 20: Madness and Sanity Variation 21: The Diremptions
of Fantasy Variation 22: The Untimely-Contemporary Variation 23: Religion
and Atheism Variation 24: The Death of God Variation 25: The Symptom as
Human Notion Conclusion: From Via Dolorosa to Gaya Scienza