Jacques Lacan, Past and Present

A Dialogue

Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jason E. Smith

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Columbia University Press
06 May 2014

Philosophy; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical ""masters,"" Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the French analytic world since Lacan's death-critiquing, for example, the link (or lack thereof) between politics and psychoanalysis in Lacan's work. Their exchange reinvigorates how the the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker is perceived.

By: Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco
Translated by: Jason E. Smith
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 156g
ISBN: 9780231165112
ISBN 10: 0231165110
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 06 May 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Foreword: ""I am counting on the tourbillon"": On the Late Lacan by Jason E. Smith Preface 1. One Master, Two Encounters 2. Thinking Disorder Notes Index"

Alain Badiou is a philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, and professor emeritus at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris. He has published many philosophical works, including Being and Event and Logics of Worlds, and the play Incident at Antioch: A Tragedy in Three Acts. Elisabeth Roudinesco is director of research at the Universite Paris Diderot and director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes, Sorbonne. She is the author of Jacques Lacan, Why Psychoanalysis?, and Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida. Jason E. Smith is a Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellow. His writing and research center on contemporary art and aesthetics, modern continental philosophy (Spinoza, Hegel, and the twentieth century), and post-1968 political thought (primarily French and Italian). His work has appeared in Artforum, Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, Parrhesia, and Radical Philosophy, and he has published, with Jean-Luc Nancy and Philip Armstrong, Politique et au-dela. He recently edited and contributed to a special issue of Grey Room devoted to the films of Guy Debord and is working on a monograph on the same subject.

Reviews for Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue

This set of exchanges adds significantly to our current appreciation of both Lacanian psychoanalysis and Badiouian philosophy. For readers curious about both Lacanian psychoanalysis and Badiouian philosophy, this book will be an irresistible must read. -- Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico This is a highly readable and relevant discussion. Badiou and Roudinesco each contribute an important piece of the puzzle that is the figure and thought of Jacques Lacan. Both the general reader and the specialists in either Badiou or Lacan's thought will be able to appreciate this book in its English translation. -- Bruno Bosteels, author of Badiou and Politics