The Freudian Subject (Language, Discourse, Society) - Hardcover

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333489861 ISBN 13: 9780333489864

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Synopsis

Who is `I'? How does a subject or self emerge in Freud's theory? To what does the repressed return? In original and lucid readings of key Freudian texts, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen argues that the constitution of an `I' at once carries the subject beyond himself to the other; there is no self that is not originally identification with the other. This argument has significant ramifications for various central issues in psychoanalysis: the relation between identification and desire, between desire and violence, and between identification and object relations. It leads to a more ominous reading of Freud by showing that the two types of ties Freud postulated in the Oedipal triangle - object love and identification (the first conceivably less linked to narcissism than the second) - are in fact one. The book should interest not only literature and philosophy specialists concerned with psychoanalytic theory but the psychoanalytic community as well.

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From the Back Cover:

Just what is the subject in Freud? The author draws on a wide range of French critical thought to argue that the subject is always fundamentally identification, in an even more radical sense than has previously been postulated. Rigorously examining the texts of Freud, he arrives at compelling rereadings of familiar concepts, concluding with a disturbing new analysis of the social bond.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0333489861
• ISBN 13: 9780333489864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278