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"we know that the Écrits are unreadable; people at least pretend to read them..."
Jacques Lacan, My Teaching
Peter Matthews analyses Lacan's most notable critics, Roger Scruton, François Roustang, Noam Chomsky and more, demonstrating that Lacan is not a charlatan, but a complex thinker and a showman. Whilst not uncritical, Matthews teases out what a true engagement with Lacanian theory reveals, and what the critics of Lacan can tell us about true intellectual integrity, mastery and reveal the useful kernels of knowledge behind this much maligned figure. Matthews is no Lacan cultist, but a serious scholar who distances himself from uncritical acceptance of Lacan, and also from people who refuse to engage Lacanianism beyond a tertiary reading before trashing the man behind the theory.
A must read for any student of psychoanalysis.
Jacques Lacan, My Teaching
Peter Matthews analyses Lacan's most notable critics, Roger Scruton, François Roustang, Noam Chomsky and more, demonstrating that Lacan is not a charlatan, but a complex thinker and a showman. Whilst not uncritical, Matthews teases out what a true engagement with Lacanian theory reveals, and what the critics of Lacan can tell us about true intellectual integrity, mastery and reveal the useful kernels of knowledge behind this much maligned figure. Matthews is no Lacan cultist, but a serious scholar who distances himself from uncritical acceptance of Lacan, and also from people who refuse to engage Lacanianism beyond a tertiary reading before trashing the man behind the theory.
A must read for any student of psychoanalysis.
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