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Jacques the Sophist

Barbara Cassin, Michael Syrotinski · 2019

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"In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth"--

Book details

Year
2019
Language
English
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Editions
2
Pages
192
ISBN
9780823285754

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