Extimacy

Nadia Bou Ali is an associate professor and director of the Critical Humanities Program for the Liberal Arts at the American University of Beirut. She is the coeditor of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics and the author of Hall of Mirrors: Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic. Bou Ali is a candidate analyst at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in the Bay Area. Surti Singh is an associate professor of philosophy at Villanova University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Concept of ExtimacyNadia Bou Ali and Surti Singh1. The Ontological Limbo: Three Notes on Extimacy and Ex-sistenceSamo TomŠič2. Extimacy and das Ding: The Outside-In of the VoidRichard Boothby3. What, If Anything, Is Authority?”Mladen Dolar4. A-Sexual Violence and Systemic EnjoymentAlenka Zupančič5. “For Thought to Dwell Where Evils Have No Entry”: On Oedipus and the Extimacy of AngerAmanda Holmes6. On Ambivalence as a Key Freudian Concept: The Vaterkomplex’s EdificeAlejandro Cerda-Rueda7. What is a Body? A Question between Critical Theory and PsychoanalysisSilvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro8. Hate Your Neighbor as You Hate Yourself: How to Think Psychoanalytically about Hate, Racism, and ExclusionPatricia Gherovici9. Objet a and the Possibilities of Political Resistance: Extimacy, Anxiety, and Political ActionAndreja Zevnik10. Transference and its Discontents: Lacan and the Ex-timate Place of PoliticsVladimir SafatleNotesIndex

"By focusing on one of Lacan's signature concepts – extimacy – the essays in this impressive collection manage to illuminate the core contributions of psychoanalysis to modern thought. The repercussions of the psychoanalytic shift are explored as they manifest themselves in a range of disciplines and in answer to a variety of stubborn problems, including race, violence, authority. These essays patiently unfold fresh insights."—Joan Copjec, Brown University