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Ucieczka od psychoanalizy
Escape from Psychoanalysis

Author(s): Didier Eribon
Contributor(s): Wojciech Śmieja (Translator)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Political economy, Comparative politics, Psychoanalysis, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Oedipus complex; psychoanalysis; queer; subjectivity; biopolitics

Summary/Abstract: The author offers a critical judgment of Lacanian psychoanalysis, pointing out its normativizing aspect. He acknowledges the impossibility of reconciliation of psychoanalytic thought with the theory of radical difference, the example of which is queer, which has been postulated by such scholars as Judith Butler, Lee Edelman or Leo Bersani. As Eribon claims, queer theory constitutes a continuation of (anti-psychoanalytic) philosophy of Michel Foucault, and it would be theoretically much more inspiring – Eribon further argues – to try to juxtapose Foucault’s thought with Sartre rather than with Freud or Lacan.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2 (7)
  • Page Range: 179-189
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish