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"Jacques Lacan Seminar VII" Author: [France] Jacques Lacan / [France] Jacques-Alain Miller Publisher: The Commercial Press
"Jacques Lacan Seminar VII" Author: [France] Jacques Lacan / [France] Jacques-Alain Miller Publisher: The Commercial Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
In this book, i.e., the seminar of 1959-1960, Lacan systematically constructed a set of "psychoanalytic ethics" with desire as the core, based on his unique understanding and innovative explanation of desire, and fully demonstrated the extremely valuable ethical value of desire by continuously engaging in in-depth dialogue with the great Western philosophical-ethical tradition from various angles. Through a unique and critical interpretation of Kant's ethics, Lacan deeply revealed the major crisis of modern Western ethics caused by the hidden connection between the latter and Sade's thought, and on this basis proposed a set of psychoanalytic solutions, the most critical link of which is to "sublimate" the object of desire or more precisely, the object of impulse in practice. Through rereading and deconstructing Freud's impulse theory, Lacan not only deeply revealed the close relationship between impulse and language, but also found a solid theoretical foundation for the plasticity of impulse and the possibility of sublimation. On the question of how to put the psychological activities of desire into action, Lacan inherited the syllogistic practice model from Aristotle to Freud, and gave a unique interpretation of it. Taking the relationship between desire and action as the main axis, Lacan actually proposed a unique tragic theory in the process of analyzing and interpreting the tragic heroes in literary classics, and revealed the tragic spirit of his desire ethics. In the end, it can be said that this psychoanalytic ethics, which aims to understand, purify and cherish desire, encourages people to "not give in to their desires" or to act according to their inner desires, and truly "follow their heart's desires."
About the Author · · · · · ·
About the author: Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), a famous French thinker, is considered the most important psychoanalyst since Freud. His major works include Collected Works, Other Collected Works, and more than 20 volumes of Seminars that have been compiled and published or are to be published. With the slogan "Return to Freud", Lacan proposed theories such as the mirror stage with the help of structuralism and other methods, which have had a wide and far-reaching impact in the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, political theory, cultural studies, and literary criticism.
Translator's profile: Lu Yi is an associate professor and master's supervisor at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) of Sun Yat-sen University, and the director of the Descartes and French Research Center of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) of Sun Yat-sen University. He is a joint PhD student in philosophy from Fudan University and Paris I University, and a visiting scholar at Paris VIII University. His translations include Selected Works on Freud's Psychology of Love (East China Normal University Press, 2017), Seminar VII of Jacques Lacan: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Commercial Press, 2021), etc.
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