The ‘new’ in the ‘new generation’ that gives the title to the present collection of articles is far from rhetorical. All the authors included are under fifty years of age, and several are under forty. Without exception, they have, however, already secured a prominent position in debates concerning the relation between philosophy and psychoanalysis, or are in the process of doing so. The other contiguous novelty of this volume that marks a major shift from previous attempts at presenting Lacan in dialogue avec les philosophes is its markedly international dimension. Contributors reside and work in seven different countries, which are, moreover, not always their countries of origin. As the reader will be able to confirm by taking into consideration the respectful intensity of the many cross-references present in these essays – which should be taken as a very partial sedimentation of exchanges of ideas and collaborative projects that, in some cases, have been ongoing for more than a decade – geographical distance appears to have been beneficial to the overcoming of Lacan’s confinement to the supposed orthodoxy of specific – provincial – schools and their pathetic fratricidal wars, whilst in parallel enhancing intellectual rigour. These pieces rethink philosophically through Lacan, with as little jargon as possible, in this order, realism, god, history, genesis and structure, writing, logic, freedom, the master and slave dialectic, the act, and the subject.
Contents
Lorenzo Chiesa, ‘Editorial Introduction. Towards a New Philosophical-Psychoanalytic Materialism and Realism’
Alenka Zupan?i?, ‘Realism in Psychoanalysis’
Felix Ensslin, ‘Accesses to the Real: Lacan, Monotheism, and Predestination’
Adrian Johnston, ‘On Deep History and Lacan’
Michael Lewis, ‘Structure and Genesis in Derrida and Lacan: Animality and the Empirical Sciences’
Matteo Bonazzi, ‘Jacques Lacan’s Onto-graphy’
Guillaume Collett, ‘The Subject of Logic: The Object (Lacan with Kant and Frege)’
Raoul Moati, ‘Metapsychology of Freedom: Symptom and Subjectivity in Lacan’
Lorenzo Chiesa, ‘Wounds of Testimony and Martyrs of the Unconscious: Lacan and Pasolini contra the Discourse of Freedom’
Justin Clemens, ‘The Field and Function of the Slave in the Écrits’
Oliver Feltham, ‘The School and the Act’
Alvise Sforza Tarabochia, ‘Lacan with Basaglia: Psychoanalysis and Anti-Psychiatry’
About the Author
Lorenzo Chiesa is Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent (UK), where he also serves as Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Thought. His research interests are in the area of Lacanian psychoanalysis; 20th century French thought; contemporary Italian philosophy and culture; Marxist theory.
