LACAN: IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING
Translated by Gregory Elliott
An expert's decisive examination of the life and legacy of one of the giants in the history of psychoanalysis
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1605-lacan
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LAUNCH EVENT:
Thursday April 24, 2014 at the Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London
LACAN AND THE FEMININE: Elisabeth Roudinesco and Lisa Appignanesi
If the twentieth century was Freudian, the twenty-first is already Lacanian, according to Elisabeth Roudinesco, the leading historian of psychoanalysis. To recall Lacan's work is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity, embracing paradox and play, transgressive desire and the rejection of norms. In her latest book Lacan: In Spite of Everything (Verso, 2014), Roudinesco looks back on the secret part of his life and work to evoke a different Lacan confronted with his excesses.
In this event, chaired by Lisa Appignanesi, Roudinesco presents this Lacan, of the margins, who heralds times that have become ours, foreseeing the rise of racism and segregation and a depressive society. Roudinesco explores the fertile and perhaps unexpected legacy of Lacan's development of numerous forms of emancipation; for example, of the procurer of Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde, for artists and writers such as Orlan and Charlotte Roche.
For more information and to book, visit the Tate website: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/talks-and-lectures/lacan-and-feminine
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embraced their paradoxes, and his language games and wordplay resonate today as so many injunctions to replace rampant individualism with a heightened social consciousness.
Widely recognized as the leading authority on Lacan, Elisabeth Roudinesco revisits his life and work: what it was – and what it remains.
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PRAISE FOR LACAN:
“Roudinesco acknowledges Lacan’s personal absurdity and literary extravagance while simultaneously showing why and how he matters.”
– New York Times
“An extraordinary book about the most flamboyant French neo-Freudian of the twentieth century.”
– The Times
“Elisabeth Roudinesco takes us on a fascinating journey … as fascinating as Lacan himself.”
– Le Monde
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Paperback Original / 224 pages / ISBN: 9781781681626 / MARCH 2014 / £14.99
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK
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