Masschelein (literary theory and cultural studies, Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium) explores the place of unease and discomfort, as described by Sigmund Freud, in the literature and literary theory dur
A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics. Although both share a focus on human life as it is inscribed by power, Foucauldian biopolitics and Lacanian psychoanalysis have remained isolated from and even
Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego s last stand its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon.
Written in the aftermath of the deaths of the French philosophers Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), this book is an important and innovative study of the contentious relation b
