Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

This book is the first to develop a Baudrillardian critique of the problematic way Lacanian psychoanalysis, as a clinical practice and by extension as a source of socio-cultural and philosophical theory, continues its vain attempt to (re)animate a subject of the unconscious.

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Victoria Grace is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. With a background in sociology and psychology, her research and teaching has been in the fields of gender studies, psychosocial studies, and critical theory. Relevant book publications include Baudrillard s Challenge, A Feminist Reading (2000), Victims, Gender and Jouissance (2012), Baudrillard West of the Dateline (2003) co-edited with Heather Worth and Laurence Simmons, and Theorizing Sexual Violence, co-edited with Renée Heberle.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. The scene of the real

2. Entanglements of desire, lack and production

3. The unconscious does not exist

4. Remainders and surpluses

5. Quandaries of simulation and dissimulation

6. Beyond belief