Bringing together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis to interrogate Lacans notion of extimitÉ In 1960, Jacques Lacan coined the neologism extimitÉ (extimacy) to denote a structure of subjectivity in which the most intimate, internal core is already external, thus complicating the traditional philosophical dualisms and binaries that have informed traditional notions of subjectivity. This collection is the first sustained interrogation of the concept of extimacy, comprising contributions on various topics by leading and emerging philosophers and scholars of psychoanalytic theory from around the world. This international collection also includes key perspectives from practicing psychoanalysts and presents a variety of critical inquiries into the concept of extimacy for application in multiple disciplines beyond philosophy and in an array of methodological and thematic frameworks.
Recenzijas
"By focusing on one of Lacan's signature concepts extimacy the essays in this impressive collection manage to illuminate the core contributions of psychoanalysis to modern thought. The repercussions of the psychoanalytic shift are explored as they manifest themselves in a range of disciplines and in answer to a variety of stubborn problems, including race, violence, authority. These essays patiently unfold fresh insights."Joan Copjec, Brown University
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Concept of Extimacy
Nadia Bou Ali and Surti Singh
1. The Ontological Limbo: Three Notes on Extimacy and Ex-sistence
Samo Tomi
2. Extimacy and das Ding: The Outside-In of the Void
Richard Boothby
3. What, If Anything, Is Authority?
Mladen Dolar
4. A-Sexual Violence and Systemic Enjoyment
Alenka Zupani
5. For Thought to Dwell Where Evils Have No Entry: On Oedipus and the
Extimacy of Anger
Amanda Holmes
6. On Ambivalence as a Key Freudian Concept: The Vaterkomplexs Edifice
Alejandro Cerda-Rueda
7. What is a Body? A Question between Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis
Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro
8. Hate Your Neighbor as You Hate Yourself: How to Think Psychoanalytically
about Hate, Racism, and Exclusion
Patricia Gherovici
9. Objet a and the Possibilities of Political Resistance: Extimacy, Anxiety,
and Political Action
Andreja Zevnik
10. Transference and its Discontents: Lacan and the Ex-timate Place of
Politics
Vladimir Safatle
Notes
Index
Nadia Bou Ali is an associate professor and director of the Critical Humanities Program for the Liberal Arts at the American University of Beirut. She is the coeditor of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics and the author of Hall of Mirrors: Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic. Bou Ali is a candidate analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in the Bay Area. Surti Singh is an associate professor of philosophy at Villanova University.
