Repetition and Subjectivity : Kierkegaard, Freud, Lacan (Suny series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)

Kolenc, Bara

State University of New York Press（2026/03発売）

State University of New York Press（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 228 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798855805499
• DDC分類 126

Full Description

A bold, systematic account of the role of repetition in shaping modern subjectivity for Kierkegaard, Freud, and Lacan.

Repetition and Subjectivity offers an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Kierkegaard's concept of repetition and the psychoanalytic one. Starting from the thesis that what lies at the heart of repetition is an ontological principle of duality, Bara Kolenc introduces four matrices of repetition: deflation, reformation, inflation, and formation. The fourth—formation—underlies the modern subject. While the contours of this scheme can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, Kierkegaard is the first to have articulated it fully, paving the way for Freud and Lacan to outline its logic most clearly. Rich and rigorous, Repetition and Subjectivity provides a new foundation for understanding modern subjectivity. Newly examining a range of philosophical and psychoanalytic concepts, from the Greek anámnesis (remembering) to the death drive and jouissance, Kolenc reveals repetition to be not simply a phenomenon but rather a central mechanism in forming the subject's relationship with reality.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction

1. Repetition Stems from Duality
A Constitutive Difference
The Four Matrices of Repetition

2. Repetition and Exception: Kierkegaard and the Greeks
The Königstadt Theater
A Venture in Experimental Psychology
The Doublings of Gjentagelsen
The Score of Experiential Experiments
Mnéme, Anámnesis and the Doctrine of Metempsychosis
Memory, Oblivion, and the Constitution of the Soul, or "Virtue Is Free": The Myth of Er
A Moment, Transition
The Choice of Life: False Hope and the Melancholy of Remembrance, the Comfort of Habits, or the Risk of Exception?
Repetition Is a New Category Yet to Be Discovered

3. Repetition as a Fundamental Concept: Freud and Lacan
Repetition Compulsion: The Three Theoretical Trajectories
A Small, Private Ceremonial
Erinnerung, Wiederholung
Repression and the Structure of Substitution
The Topography and the Dynamics of Repression
The Metapsychological Puzzle and the Death Drive
The Paradigm of Enjoyment
Recollection Is Not Reminiscence, and Life Is Not a Dream
Duality of the Real
(De)Montage of the Drive: Vorstellungsrepräsentanz

Conclusion

Notes
References
Index