Lacan and Cassirer

Antoine Mooij, Ph.D (1975), is Professor Emeritus of Law and Psychiatry, Utrecht University. He has published on Lacanian psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and hermeneutical psychiatry. Among his books are Intentionality, Desire, Responsibility. A Study in Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis and Law (Brill, 2010) and Psychiatry as a Human Science. Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives (Rodopi, 2012).

• Introduction1 An Outline of the Human Condition 1.1 Three Levels of the Human Condition: From Intentionality to Structure1.2 Three Types of Hermeneutics: From Signification to Signifier1.3 Three Levels of the Human Condition Revisited1.4 Application in Psychopathology1.5An Inquiry into Possibility: The Capacity to Symbolise2 Cassirer 2.1 A Return to Kant2.2 Cassirer’s Ambition2.3 Cassirer and Heidegger2.4 The Mind and Critical Idealism2.5 The Concept of a Symbolic Form2.6 Myth and Religion, Language, Science2.7 Symbolisation: Three Sources and Three Modes2.8 A Symbolic Form in the Making?3 Lacan 3.1 A Return to Freud3.2 The Autonomy of the Symbolic Order3.3 The Dialectics of Desire3.4 Differential Character of the Language Sign3.5 Symbolic Identification3.6 The Real: Three Domains, Three Forms3.7 The Later Lacan3.8 Joyce and Lacan3.9 Substance or Function3.10 Lacan and Cassirer Juxtaposed3.11 Lacan and Cassirer Put into a Mutual Relationship4 Variations on the Theme of Symbolisation 4.1 The Human Condition and the Symbolic Function4.2 The Medial Turn and Its Philosophy4.3 Symbolisation in Perception4.4 Homo Symbolicus: An Evolutionary Perspective4.5 The Symbolic Order from A Normative Perspective: Politics, Law, Ethics4.6 Shades of Symbolisation: The Psychic Disorder4.7 One and the Same Theme?BibliographyAnnex: Diagram of the Symbolising ProcessIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects