ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE, LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS, USED IN THE TEXT, INTRODUCTION. Returning to Metapsychology, CHAPTER ONE. Toward the Unthought Ground of Thought, CHAPTER TWO. Between the Image and the Word, CHAPTER THREE. The Freudian Dialectic, CHAPTER FOUR. The Freudian Thing, CHAPTER FIVE. Figurations of the Objet a, CONCLUSION, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
Richard Boothby is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He is author of Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theoryin Lacan's Return to Freud (Routledge 1991).
"...provides an extensive discussion of Freud's Nachtraglichkeit,
deferred action, whereby an event becomes meaningful or traumatic
as a result of subsequent associations. Boothby explains Freud's
theory by comparing it to the views of James, Bergson, Nietzsche,
Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and of Gestalt psychology. This volume
succeeds as an explication of Freud and Lacan...Large public
collections and upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Choice June 2002."
"Many have tried to uncover the philosophical underpinnings of
Freudian psychoanalysis, but none has succeeded so convincingly as
does Richard Boothby in Freud as Philosopher. Boothby finds in the
concept of the dispositional field--discovered and refined by such
diverse figures as Monet, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty--a way of
redeeming Freudian energetics by placing it on a secure
philosophical basis that is equally relevant to perception, image,
and word. This remarkably insightful thesis is brilliantly and
lucidly argued in a book that will make a permanent difference in
all future readings of Freud and Lacan." -- Edward Casey, State
University of New York at Stony Brook
"A book all those seriously interested in Sigmund Freud and Jacques
Lacan were waiting for-- rejecting the usual mixture of Cultural
Studies pseudo-critical variations which lack the elementary
conceptual stringency, Boothby reads Freud and Lacan through
Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and other key modern philosophers,
restoring the Freudian metapsychology to its philosophical dignity.
It is in books like this that we should look for the renaissance of
the American thought! If the term 'classic' has any meaning today,
Freud as Philosopher is it!" -- Slavoj Zizek
"Richard Boothby's evident mastery of both the Freudian and
Lacanian corpora is incredibly impressive. The weaving together of
various published and unpublished texts by original as well as
secondary sources with Boothby's own insights makes this an
exciting, indeed brilliant work that will have a definitive impact
on how psychoanalysis is conceived in relationship to philosophy."
-- Gail Weiss, author of Body Images:Embodiment as
Incorporeality
"A book all those seriously interested in Sigmund Freud and Jacques
Lacan were waiting for-- rejecting the usual mixture of Cultural
Studies pseudo-critical variations which lack the elementary
conceptual stringency, Boothby reads Freud and Lacan through
Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and other key modern philosophers,
restoring the Freudian metapsychology to its philosophical dignity.
It is in books like this that we should look for the renaissance of
American thought! If the term 'classic' has any meaning today,
Freud as Philosopher is it!" -- Slavoj Zizek
"Boothby does deserve credit for making Lacan more accessible and
helping non-Lacanians to appreciate his philosophical
contribution... Boothby's book will be useful for anyone who has
interests in the intersection between philosophy and
psychoanalysis." -- Elliot Jurist, Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews, May 7, 2002
"Boothby generates not only a fresh undersanding of psychoanalytic
theory, but also his own original contribution to the philosophy of
psychoanalysis. Scholar of religion will find this book important
for its acute review of theories of religious sacrifice from Tylor
tto Bataille and its original and compelling revision of these
theories." -- Religious Studies Review
"Boothby generates not only a fresh undersanding of psychoanalytic
theory, but also his own original contribution to the philosophy of
psychoanalysis. Scholars of religion will find this book important
for its acute review of theories of religious sacrifice from Tylor
tto Bataille and its original and compelling revision of these
theories." -- Religious Studies Review
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