Lacan and Deleuze

Boštjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has published extensively on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Italian biopolitical theory and contemporary French philosophy. Andreja Zevnik is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include theories of subjectivity, political violence and resistance, aesthetic politics, law and psychoanalysis. She is a member of editorial board for the Journal of Narrative Politics. She recently published Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics: re-thinking the ontology of the political subject (Routledge, 2016) and Jacques Lacan Between Psychoanalysis and Politics (Ed. with Andreja Zevnik; Routledge 2015).

• Introduction: On a Disjunctive Synthesis Between Deleuze and Lacan1. Peter Klepec, For an Another Deleuze-Lacan Encounter2. Laurent de Sutter, Reciprocal Portrait of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze3. Boštjan Nedoh, Does the Body without Organs Have Any Sex At All? Lacan and Deleuze on Perversion and Sexual Difference4. Scott Wilson, Gnomology: Deleuze’s Phobias and the Line of Flight between Speech and the Body5. Andreja Zevnik, Lacan, Deleuze and the Politics of the Face6. Tadej Troha, Denkwunderkeiten: On Deleuze, Schreber, and Freud7. Guillaume Collett, Snark, Jabberwock, Poord’jeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian School on the Names-of-the-Father8. Samo Tomšič, Baroque Structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan, and the Critique of Linguistics9. Lorenzo Chiesa, Exalted Obscenity and the Lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze, and the Baroque10. Alenka Zupančič, The Death Drive11. Adrian Johnston, Repetition and Difference: Žižek, Deleuze, and Lacanian Drives12. Paul M. Livingston, Lacan, Deleuze, and the Consequences of Formalism

This book provides substantial, new and creative readings of one of the most significant debates of the 20th Century. The authors are to be commended for taking on the challenge to develop arguments that are of great interest for both theorists and historians of contemporary philosophy.