Maria Aristodemou

Law, Psychoanalysis, Society

Taking the Unconscious Seriously

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' we say in a court of law. 'In a court of law, the truth is precisely what we will not say', says Lacan. This book takes Lacan's inversion, and the hypothesis of the unconscious, seriously and puts the legal subject on the couch. In its exploration into the incestuous relationship between law and desire, enjoyment and transgression, truth and lies, freedom and subservience, ethics and atheism, this book provides a step-by-step analysis of those central psychoanalytic concepts that problematize fundamental tenets of the legal system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415710213
• ISBN-10: 0415710219
• Artikelnr.: 38025646

Autorenporträt

Maria Aristodemou is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Unconscious Is Out There, Chapter 2: In The Beginning Was
Lack 1. The Demand For More 2. The Half-Hearted Murder 3. The Morning After
4. Enjoyment and Its Discontents 5. The Promise of Less, Chapter 3: The
Hole In The Subject 1. Losing an Object, Becoming a Subject 2. The Aborted
Animal 3. Cut by the Word 4. Language, Truth and Lies 5. The Phallacy of
the Phallus 6. Second Hand Desires 7. The Hole in Seeing 8. The Hole in
Desire 9. The Hole in Transgression 10. The Hole in Sacrifice 11. The Hole
in Enjoyment Chapter 4: The Hole In The Big Other 1. The Hole in Reality 2.
The Hole in Society 3. The Hole in Prohibition 4. The Hole in Reason 5. The
Perverse Core of Law 6. The Hole in Form 7. The Hole in Law 8. The Hole in
Bureaucracy, Chapter 5: Placebos 1. In Place of the Object 2. In Place Of
The Subject 3. Law as a Defense 4. Law Between Pleasure and Jouissance 5.
The Master 6. The Cult of Humanity 7. The Neighbor 8. Self-rule 9. Work,
Shopping, Sex 10. Love 11. Poetry 12. Democracy, Chapter 6: Atheism 1. The
Empty Place 2. From the Big to the Impotent Other 3. Big Other Doesn't Know
He's Dead 4. From the Master to the Analyst 5. Knowing How Not to Know
6. From Morality to Ethics 7. From Lack to the Act 8. The Royal Road to
Truth 9. Anxiety and Illegality 10. Losing the Belief, and the Disbelief
Chapter 7: Postscript Notes

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Introduction: The Unconscious is Out There Part A: The Hole in the Subject 1. In the Beginning Was Lack 2. The Divided Subject: Freud 3. The Divided Subject: Lacan 4. Language, Truth and Lies 5. Demand Minus Need, The Hysteric and Her Master 6. The Bedrock of Sexual Difference Part B: The Hole in The Big Other 7. The Hole in Reality: Ideology Without End 8. The One Who Enjoys 9. The Subject's Love of the Law 10. Transgression Without End? 11. Guilt Before the Law 12. Enjoyment Minus Freedom 13. The Hole in the Law 14. The Hole in the Master Part C: Placebos 15. In Place of the Object: Fantasy 16. The Subject and Her 'Decaffeinated' Neighbor 17. Work, Capitalism, Sex, Shopping (and shopping for sex) 18. Art, Culture, Poetry, Love 19. Nation, Community 20. Democracy, Bureaucracy Part D. Atheism 21. Dethroning the Master 22. From Lack to the Act 23. Towards An Atheist Jurisprudence

Rezensionen

'The interrelation of law and psychiatry lies at the very heart of our judicial edifice. The time has come to introduce some clarity in this obscure mixture, not only by bringing out the legalistic underpinnings of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, but also by denouncing the perverse libidinal underpinnings of legal practices. Aristodemou's book performs this task brilliantly. It not only hits the nail on its head, as they say - it also cracks this head open with its precise and forceful blows.'

Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities





'This systematic and accessible account of key concepts in psychoanalysis powerfully demonstrates the relevance of Lacan's thought for legal theory. It boldly posits the challenge of freedom in its vision of an atheist jurisprudence. The subject of law will not be the same again.'



Jodi Dean, Professor at Hobart and William Smith College, USA