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The Literary Lacan: From Literature to ‘Lituraterre’ and Beyond
The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. This book is dedicated to assessing Lacan’s significant contribution to literary studies and the contribution, in turn, of literature to Lacanian psychoanalysis. The first essays in this…
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In Dora’s Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism
Freud invented psychoanalysis between 1895 and 1900 on the basis of his clinical experience with hysterical patients, most of them women. The most provocative and intriguing of these patients was Ida Bauer, whom Freud named Dora when he published her case history as Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. This anthology of twelve…
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Žižek’s Jokes
Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings…
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The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly influenced philosophers including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Hubert Dreyfus, Stanley Cavell, Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Badiou, and Gilles Deleuze. His accounts…
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The Standard Edition of Freud | The Complete 24 Volumes
Embark on an intellectual odyssey through the depths of the human psyche with The Standard Edition of Freud. Within the pages of this monumental collection, meticulously translated and curated by James Strachey, Anna Freud, Alix Strachey, and Alan Tyson, lies the essence of Freud’s ground-breaking theories—a treasure trove of insights into the complexities of human behaviour,…
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The Third Wittgenstein: The Post-Investigations Works
This anthology establishes the existence of a distinct and important post-Investigations by Wittgenstein, uncovering the overlooked treasures of the final corpus and crystallising key perceptions of what his last thought was achieving. Speaking of a ‘third Wittgenstein’, this book seeks to correct the traditional bipartite conception of Wittgenstein’s thought into his Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations…
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Friedrich Nietzsche | Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe: Werke und Briefe
In the early 1960s, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari were preparing an Italian edition of Nietzsche’s works. However, they needed a reliable German-language foundation for this. Both the old editions from the archive and the Schlechta edition raised unresolved questions; in particular, none of the previous editions were suitable for a complete edition of Nietzsche’s…
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