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Introduction: Approaching the Real
This book concerns the concept of the ‘Real’ in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Lacan proposed an ambitious, at times highly abstract, and always philosophically suggestive, reading of Freu...
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The Real and the Symbolic
Having explained how Lacan lays out the formation of the Real, conceived in its relationship to the Imaginary as an immanently produced, and irrecuperable, antagonism proper to identification, I will now outli...
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The Real and Psychopathology
Up to now, I have largely been concerned with articulating the complex, theoretical relationship between Lacan’s concept of the Real and the wider concerns of his metapsychology. In approaching these questions...
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Conclusion: Philosophical Psychoanalysis?
To conclude, I’d like to provide some thoughts on the meta-theoretical status of my argument. What, finally, is the ‘Real’, both in terms of its position within Lacan’s wider metapsychology and his theory of t...
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The Imaginary and the Real
In this chapter I will draw out in Lacan ‘s account of the Imaginary register, and in particular in his various engagements with the constitutivity of the image of the ‘other’, the beginnings of what he would ...
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Space and the Real
Up to now, I have been concerned with the ways in which Lacan, from the 1940s to the beginning of the 1960s, laid the ground for a psychoanalysis predicated on the Real. By showing the place of the Real in the...
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Lacanian Materialism?
In this chapter I aim to consolidate a number of the themes already broached in preceding chapters, particularly as they relate to Lacan’s writings on materiality and materialism, and as they point towards a t...
