Cogito and the Unconscious
- List Price: $27.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
- Publish date: 04/01/1998
Noting that for Lacan the Cartesian construct is the same as the Freudian "subject of the unconscious", the contributors follow Lacan's plea for a psychoanalytic return to the cogito. Along the path of this return, they examine the ethical attitude that befits modern subjectivity; the inherent sexualization of modern subjectivity; the impasse in which the Cartesian project becomes involved given the enigmatic status of the human body; and the Cartesian subject's confrontation with its modern critics including Althusser, Bataille, and Dennett. In a style that has become familiar to Zizek's readers, these essays bring together a strict conceptual analysis and an approach to a wide range of cultural and ideological phenomena -- from the sadist paradoxes of Kant's moral philosophy to the universe of Ayn Rand's novels, from the question "Which, if any, is the sex of the cogito?" to the defense of the cogito against the onslaught of cognitive sciences.
Challenging us to reconsider fundamental notions of humanconsciousness and modern subjectivity, this is a book whose very Lacanian orthodoxy makes it irreverently transgressive of predominant theoretical paradigms. Cogito and the Unconscious will appeal to readers interested in philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and theories of ideology.
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