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The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism
Rob Weatherill
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Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPCF7; JFC; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-`68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud's paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry, schizoanalysis and radical politics, the complex antinomies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Levinas, Steiner, Zizek, Badiou, Derrida and Girard, as well as theologians, analysts, writers, musicians and film makers. In this book, Rob Weatherill, starting from the clinic, considers the end of ... Read more
The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-`68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud's paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry, schizoanalysis and radical politics, the complex antinomies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Levinas, Steiner, Zizek, Badiou, Derrida and Girard, as well as theologians, analysts, writers, musicians and film makers. In this book, Rob Weatherill, starting from the clinic, considers the end of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138692350
SKU
V9781138692350
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About Rob Weatherill
Rob Weatherill is a practicing and supervisory psychoanalyst in private practice in Dublin. He has been a lecturer on psychoanalysis and taught psychoanalytic theory and practice in University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and the Milltown Institute of Philosophy and Theology. He has written several books, and over thirty papers and articles in journals and other media, in Ireland and ... Read more
Reviews for The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism
Oedipus is dead and we have killed him. From Freud's dreamwork to Krautrock and Kraftwerk, Rob Weatherill unfolds the consequences of our post 60s anti-Oedipal impulses, our excess of hate over love and our very indifference to that state. With fearless intellect it poses the question: is it possible to live and thrive outside the Oedipal frame altogether? This is ... Read more