Psychoanalysis, philosophy and antiphilosophy at Lacan Cover Image

Psychanalyse, philosophie et antiphilosophie chez Lacan
Psychoanalysis, philosophy and antiphilosophy at Lacan

Author(s): Flaviu-Victor Câmpean
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Bibliography, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: Modern Philosophy; Anti-Philosophy; Real; Anxiety; Object a; das Ding; Impossible;

Summary/Abstract: Jacques Lacan’s ambiguous relation to Continental philosophy provides the perks of restoring the affinity between the “first philosophy” in an Aristotelian sense and Psychoanalysis as a practice, i.e. a re-writing of the subject, while at the same time assuming the failure of the so-called Metaphysical modern subject. According to Lacan, the redefined clinical Anxiety and the Freudian Unheimlich that indicate the Real as an impossible, prove the error of Descartes, who claimed to have forged a knowledge (savoir) based on the cogito. Therefore, the last revolution of Modern Philosophy would be the one of Lacanian psychoanalysis, bearing the mark of the Unconscious, of the object a and of the Thing (das Ding), reenacted within the confines of radical lack

  • Issue Year: IX/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 17-28
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French