Writing the Structures of the Subject Lacan and Topology /

• Main Author: Greenshields, Will (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: The Palgrave Lacan Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy of mind.; Psychiatry.; Psychoanalysis.; Topology.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Critical psychology.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Philosophy of Mind.; Critical Psychology.

This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan’s theories, as well as readings of texts that have...

Table of Contents:

• Dissolution and Déblayage
• The Topology of the Psychoanalytic Subject
• Topology and the Re-turn to Freud
• The Borromean Knot
• Conclusion: A New Imaginary.