Del 321 - Philosophy and Psychology

Lacan and Cassirer

An Essay on Symbolisation

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Antoine Mooij

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The Neo-Kantian philosopher Cassirer and the psychoanalyst Lacan are two key figures in the so-called medial turn in philosophy: the notion that any form of access to reality is mediated by symbols (images, words, signifiers). This explains why the theories of both philosophers merit a description in their own unique idioms, as well as having their respective basic tenets compared. It will be argued that, rather surprisingly, these tenets turn out be complementary - actually correcting each other – based on their shared notion of man as an animal symbolicum. Its fruitfulness will be substantiated for a limited number of topics within the humanities: perception, language, politics and ethics, and mental disorder, all to be considered from this perspective.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-20
Mått155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt418 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy and Psychology
Antal sidor258
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004373426

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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