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Carregando... Lacan's Return to Antiquity: Between nature and the godsde Oliver Harris
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Lacan’s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan’s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a twentieth-century theory of psychology? In Lacan’s case, the issue has an additional edge, for he employs antiquity to demonstrate what is radically new about psychoanalysis. It is a tool with which to convey the revolutionary power of Freud’s ideas by digging down to the philosophical questions beneath them. It is through these questions that Lacan allies psychoanalysis with the pioneering intellectual developments of his time in anthropology, philosophy, art and literature. Harris begins by considering the role of Plato and Socrates in Lacan’s conflicted thoughts on teaching, writing and the process of becoming an intellectual icon. In doing so, he provides a way into considering the uniquely challenging nature of the Lacanian texts themselves, and the live performances behind them. Two central chapters explore when and why myth is drawn upon in psychoanalysis, its threat to the discipline’s scientific aspirations, and Lacan’s embrace of its expressive potential. The final chapters explore Lacan’s defence of tragedy and his return to Ovidian themes. These include the unwitting voyeurism of Actaeon, and the fate of Narcissus, a figure of tragic metamorphosis that Freud places at the heart of infantile development. Lacan’s Return to Antiquity brings to Lacan studies the close reading and cross-disciplinary research that has proved fruitful in understanding Freud’s invention of psychoanalysis. It will appeal to psychoanalysts and advanced students studying in the field, being of particular value to those interested in the roots of Lacanian concepts, the evolution of his thought, and the cultural context of his work. What emerges is a more nuanced, self-critical figure, a corrective to the reputation for dogmatism and obscurity that Lacan has attracted. In the process, new light is thrown on enduring controversies, from Lacan’s pronouncements on feminine sexuality to the opaque drama of the seminars themselves. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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By far the most interesting part of Harris's book, for me, which looks at the question of masters and disciples. Using the model of Socrates relationship to Plato, Harris ponders how Lacan's attitude toward these two thinkers shifted and changed with the development of his career and his occupation of the space of a 'master' rather than disciple. This issue becomes particularly pressing when it comes to question of the publication of Lacan's ideas, and Harris masterfully shows how this is reflected both in his comments to his audience and his attitude toward Plato in general.
The other parts of the book focus on other obvious connections between Lacan and antiquity - the Symposium and the myth told by Aristophanes, for instance, or the centrality of tragedy to both Freud and Lacan. While these chapters are well-written, they fall back into a kind of academic blandness that is missing from the opening chapter.
Nonetheless, Harris draws deftly on a wide ranges of sources, both Lacan-related and otherwise, and his prose throughout is clear and accessible. This is a worthy contribution to the field, although one gets the sense that Harris is having a lot more fun these days writing fiction. (