Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan PDF
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Freud Philosopher as Freud Philosopher as METAPSYCHOLOGY AFTER LACAN RICHARD BOOTHBY ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK AND LONDON Published in 2001 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. Copyright © 2001 by Routledge Printed in the United States of America on acid free paper. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including any photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without per- mission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publishing Data Boothby, Richard, 1954- Freud as philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan / Richard Boothby. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92589--4--ISBN 0-415-92590-8 (pbk) 1. Psychoanalysis and philosophy. 2. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. 3. Lacan,Jacques, 1901- I. Title. BF17S.4.P45 B66 2001 150.19'Sdc2I 00-068964 Where is my metapsychology? In the first place, it remains unwritten. Working-over matenal systematically is not possible for me; the frag- mentary nature of my observations and the sporadic character of my ideas will not permit ¡t. If, however, I should live another ten years, remain capable of work during that time.. . then I promise to make further contributions to it. Sigmund Freud, letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful for permission to reprint selected excerpts from the fol- lowing: Crises in Continental Philosophy: Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existentialism, edited by Arleen B. Daliery Charles E. Scott and P. Holley Roberts. Copyright 1990. Reprinted by permission of State University of New York Press. 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English transla- tion copyright © 1988 by Cambridge University Press. Used by permis- sion of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Seminar ofJacques Lacan Book VuThe Ethics of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan, edited by Jacques- Alain Miller, translated by Dennis Porter. Copyright © 1986 by Les Editions du Seuil. English translation copyright © 1992 byW. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, mc, and from Routledge. Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau- Ponty, translated by Colin Smith. Reprinted by permission of Northwestern University Press. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Loyola College Center for the Humanities in the writing and publication of this book. VIII ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii PREFACE xiii LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT xvii i INTRODUCTION Returning to Metapsychology To Recall Freud's Witch 2 The Lacanian Return to Freud 9 CHAPTER ONE Toward the Unthought Ground of Thought 17 Mon ets Pursuit of the EnveIoppe" 18 The World of the Water Lilies 21 The Class of 1890: James, Bergson, and Nietzsche 26 Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenology 37 Heidegger: The Disposition of Being 43 The Gestaltist Ontology of Merleau-Ponty 54 The Unthought Ground of Thought in the Freudian Unconscious 61 CHAPTER TWO Between the Image and the Word 71 In the Shadow of the Image 72 The Unconscious Play of the Signifier 78 From Image to Sign 86 The Ratman's Phantasy 94 The Specimen Dream of Psychoanalysis 99 In the Navel of the Dream 105 The Dreams Solution 114 Circulation in the Psychical Apparatus 119 The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles 124 CHAPTER THREE The Freudian Dialectic 133 The Formative Power of the Image 134 Imaginary Alienation 141 Aggressivity and the Death Drive 150 The Agency of Death in the Signifier 154 Language Acquisition and the Oedipus Complex 163 Psychoanalysis and the Theory of Sacrifice 175 Toward a Lacanian Theory of Sacrifice 183 CHAPTER FOUR The Freudian Thing 191 ALovelriangle 193 The Thing about the Other 198 Thing or No-thing 209 Speaking of the Thing 216 Freud avec Jakobson 224 X CONTENTS
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