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Psychoanalytic Praxis And The Truth Of Pain, William J. Richardson Jan 2001

Psychoanalytic Praxis And The Truth Of Pain, William J. Richardson

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William J. Richardson’s, “Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain” critically reviews Lacan’s conception of science, truth, and language above all. For Lacan, speaking of the “subject of science,” it is as if the entire scientific enterprise – its history, its institutions and all the virulence of its burgeoning power – may be conceived as the function of a single hypostasized, egoless subject: the “correlate” of science as such, taken as a whole. Reading Lacan’s essay “Science and Truth,” Richardson offers a philosophical outline of the strengths of Lacan’s analysis along with its limitations, including a discussion of Heidegger's aletheia …


On The Order Of The Real: Nietzsche And Lacan, Babette Babich Jan 1996

On The Order Of The Real: Nietzsche And Lacan, Babette Babich

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