Extimacy (Diaeresis) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810147513 ISBN 13: 9780810147515

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Bringing together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis to interrogate Lacan’s 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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810147513
• ISBN 13: 9780810147515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Bou Ali Nadia, Singh Surti