Posts tagged ‘psychoanalysis’
Realism and moral being
Andrew Collier, 1944–2014
by Peter Osborne and William Outhwaite / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Obituary
Andrew Collier, who died on 3 July after more than a decade living with cancer, was a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective during the 1990s and a longstanding contributor to the journal. Born in Edmonton, North London, towards the end of World War II, he attended Bedford College, University of London (later …
Always historicize?
by Lynne Segal / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / Review
Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds, History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2013. 347 pp., £57.50 hb, 978 0 23011 336 7
‘Always historicize!’ has been a fashionable rallying call in recent times. Yet only a minority of those who scrutinize the workings of mind or body …
Name of the Father, ‘One’ of the Mother: From Beauvoir to Lacan
With introduction by Penelope Deutscher
by Françoise Collin / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Article
To Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragossa, perched on her column, ‘But there is something more, a puissance beyond the phallus.’
If I take a few aspects of the thought of Jacques Lacan, and investigate their relation to Simone de Beauvoir around one specific point, I have no intention of making him out – …
Jean Laplanche, 1924–2012
Forming new knots
by Nicholas Ray / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Obituary
Jean Laplanche, one of Europe’s most eminent and original psychoanalytic thinkers, died on 6 May, at the age of 87. His death brings to an end a remarkable intellectual career dedicated to the meticulous analysis and rigorous critical expansion of the Freudian discovery. Laplanche was born on 21 June 1924 to a …
Noam Chomsky
Freedom and power
by Noam Chomsky and Peter Hallward / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Interview
Peter Hallward I’d like to start by asking you about some of your basic philosophical principles, starting with your understanding of human freedom and creativity. In the modern European tradition I’m most familiar with, freedom is a dominant philosophical theme from Descartes through Rousseau to Kant. With Kant we have an affirmation …
David Macey, 1949-2011
Biographer of the French intellectual Left
by Neil Belton and Peter Osborne / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Obituary
David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer …
Who Was Oscar Masotta? Response to Derbyshire
Letter
by Daniel R. Quiles / RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) / Extras
Philip Derbyshire (‘Who Was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysisin Argentina’, RP 158) should be commended for his insightful consideration of the literary and psychoanalytic writings of Oscar Masotta, one of the most important Argentine intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. I would like to make a case for juxtaposing these texts with Masotta’s idiosyncratic and interdisciplinary explorations …
Who was Oscar Masotta?
Psychoanalysis in Argentina
by Philip Derbyshire / RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009) / Article
As Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s sardonic detective Pepe Carvalho ruefully observed, in a dictionary of Argentine clichés, psychoanalysis would have a crucial place, along with ‘tango and the disappeared’.1 ‘One’ knows that along with Paris, Buenos Aires is one of the centres of psychoanalytic practice, and one of the leading training centres …
Mirrors without images
Mimesis and recognition in Lacan and Adorno
by Vladimir Safatle / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006) / Article
Enigma variation
Laplanchean psychoanalysis and the formation of the raced unconscious
by Shannon W. Sullivan / RP 122 (Nov/Dec 2003) / Article
‘Siegfried Kracauer’, University of Birmingham, 13–14 September 2002
by Esther Leslie / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / Conference Report
The introduction of the Oedipus Complex and the reinvention of instinct
Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
by Philippe Van Haute / RP 115 (Sep/Oct 2002) / Article
Philippe Van Haute traces the evolution of the relation between ‘normality’ and pathology in Freud’s additions to Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
Family values
Butler, Lacan and the rise of Antigone
by Cecilia Sjoholm / RP 111 (Jan/Feb 2002) / Article
Psychoanalysis and politics
Juliet Mitchell then and now
by Lynne Segal / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000) / Article
Wishful theory and sexual politics
by Jonathan Dollimore / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000) / Article
Across the last two or three decades identity and desire have been ʻtheorizedʼ relentlessly. Influences have been diverse: I remember especially the impact, for gay writing, of Barthesʼ dream, or plea, in 1975, for a radical sexual diversity wherein there would no longer be homosexuality (singular) but homosexualities, a plural so radical it ʻwill baffle any centred, …
Jean Laplanche
The other within - Rethinking psychoanalysis
by Jean Laplanche, Peter Osborne and John Fletcher / RP 102 (Jul/Aug 2000) / Interview
Jean Laplanche is the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day. Setting out from a critical reconstruction of Freudʼs terminology, he has developed a systematic rethinking of psychoanalytic metapsychology under the heading of a ʻgeneral theory of seductionʼ. Still best known in Britain for his early joint work with Pontalis – ʻFantasy …
Demanding approval
On the ethics of Alain Badiou
by Simon Critchley / RP 100 (Mar/Apr 2000) / Article
Realism and moral being
Andrew Collier, 1944–2014by Peter Osborne and William Outhwaite / RP 187 (Sept/Oct 2014) / Obituary
Andrew Collier, who died on 3 July after more than a decade living with cancer, was a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective during the 1990s and a longstanding contributor to the journal. Born in Edmonton, North London, towards the end of World War II, he attended Bedford College, University of London (later …
Always historicize?
by Lynne Segal / RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) / ReviewSally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds, History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2013. 347 pp., £57.50 hb, 978 0 23011 336 7
‘Always historicize!’ has been a fashionable rallying call in recent times. Yet only a minority of those who scrutinize the workings of mind or body …
Name of the Father, ‘One’ of the Mother: From Beauvoir to Lacan
With introduction by Penelope Deutscherby Françoise Collin / RP 178 (Mar/Apr 2013) / Article
To Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragossa, perched on her column, ‘But there is something more, a puissance beyond the phallus.’
If I take a few aspects of the thought of Jacques Lacan, and investigate their relation to Simone de Beauvoir around one specific point, I have no intention of making him out – …
Jean Laplanche, 1924–2012
Forming new knotsby Nicholas Ray / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Obituary
Jean Laplanche, one of Europe’s most eminent and original psychoanalytic thinkers, died on 6 May, at the age of 87. His death brings to an end a remarkable intellectual career dedicated to the meticulous analysis and rigorous critical expansion of the Freudian discovery. Laplanche was born on 21 June 1924 to a …
Noam Chomsky
Freedom and powerby Noam Chomsky and Peter Hallward / RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012) / Interview
Peter Hallward I’d like to start by asking you about some of your basic philosophical principles, starting with your understanding of human freedom and creativity. In the modern European tradition I’m most familiar with, freedom is a dominant philosophical theme from Descartes through Rousseau to Kant. With Kant we have an affirmation …
David Macey, 1949-2011
Biographer of the French intellectual Leftby Neil Belton and Peter Osborne / RP 171 (Jan/Feb 2012) / Obituary
David Macey died from complications of lung cancer on 7 October. He embodied the paradox of being a fine public intellectual while remaining an intenselyprivate person. He was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation and added appreciably to scholarly knowledge, yet did his most significant work as a freelance writer …
Who Was Oscar Masotta? Response to Derbyshire
Letterby Daniel R. Quiles / RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010) / Extras
Philip Derbyshire (‘Who Was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysisin Argentina’, RP 158) should be commended for his insightful consideration of the literary and psychoanalytic writings of Oscar Masotta, one of the most important Argentine intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. I would like to make a case for juxtaposing these texts with Masotta’s idiosyncratic and interdisciplinary explorations …
Who was Oscar Masotta?
Psychoanalysis in Argentinaby Philip Derbyshire / RP 158 (Nov/Dec 2009) / Article
As Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s sardonic detective Pepe Carvalho ruefully observed, in a dictionary of Argentine clichés, psychoanalysis would have a crucial place, along with ‘tango and the disappeared’.1 ‘One’ knows that along with Paris, Buenos Aires is one of the centres of psychoanalytic practice, and one of the leading training centres …
Mirrors without images
Mimesis and recognition in Lacan and Adornoby Vladimir Safatle / RP 139 (Sep/Oct 2006) / Article
Enigma variation
Laplanchean psychoanalysis and the formation of the raced unconsciousby Shannon W. Sullivan / RP 122 (Nov/Dec 2003) / Article
‘Siegfried Kracauer’, University of Birmingham, 13–14 September 2002
by Esther Leslie / RP 116 (Nov/Dec 2002) / Conference ReportThe introduction of the Oedipus Complex and the reinvention of instinct
Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexualityby Philippe Van Haute / RP 115 (Sep/Oct 2002) / Article
Philippe Van Haute traces the evolution of the relation between ‘normality’ and pathology in Freud’s additions to Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
Family values
Butler, Lacan and the rise of Antigoneby Cecilia Sjoholm / RP 111 (Jan/Feb 2002) / Article
Psychoanalysis and politics
Juliet Mitchell then and nowby Lynne Segal / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000) / Article
Wishful theory and sexual politics
by Jonathan Dollimore / RP 103 (Sep/Oct 2000) / ArticleAcross the last two or three decades identity and desire have been ʻtheorizedʼ relentlessly. Influences have been diverse: I remember especially the impact, for gay writing, of Barthesʼ dream, or plea, in 1975, for a radical sexual diversity wherein there would no longer be homosexuality (singular) but homosexualities, a plural so radical it ʻwill baffle any centred, …
Jean Laplanche
The other within - Rethinking psychoanalysisby Jean Laplanche, Peter Osborne and John Fletcher / RP 102 (Jul/Aug 2000) / Interview
Jean Laplanche is the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day. Setting out from a critical reconstruction of Freudʼs terminology, he has developed a systematic rethinking of psychoanalytic metapsychology under the heading of a ʻgeneral theory of seductionʼ. Still best known in Britain for his early joint work with Pontalis – ʻFantasy …
Demanding approval
On the ethics of Alain Badiouby Simon Critchley / RP 100 (Mar/Apr 2000) / Article