Description
The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering. Lacan & Science also tackles more widely the role and logic of scientific practice in general, taking as its focus psychic processes. Central themes that are explored from a variety of perspectives include the use of mathematics in Lacanian psychoalanysis, the importance of linguistics and Freud's text in Lacan's approach, and the central significance attached to ethics and the role of the subject. Constituting an invaluable addition to existing literature, this comprehensive volume offers a fresh insight into Lacan's conception of the subject and its implications to scientific practice and evidence.
Table of Contents
Introduction , Theory and evidence in the Freudian field: from observation to structure 1 , Psychonalysis operates upon the subject of science: Lacan between science and ethics 1 , A matter of cause: reflections on Lacan's "Science and truth" , Causality in science and psychoanalysis , Elements of epistemology , Knowledge and science: fantasies of the whole , From mathematics to psychology: Lacan's missed encounters , Postures and impostures: on Lacan's style and use of mathematical science , What causes structure to find a place in love? , A Lacanian approach to clinical diagnosis and addiction , Lacan between cultural studies and cognitivism
