Lacan on Love

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Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps and become ensnared time and again Deliriously mad excitement turns to disenchantment, if not deadening repetition, and we wonder how we shall ever break out of this vicious cycle.Can psychoanalysis with ample assistance from philosophers, poets, novelists, and songwriters give us a new perspective on the wellsprings and course of love Can it help us fathom how and why we are often looking for love in all the wrong places, and are fundamentally confused about what love really is In this lively and wide ranging exploration of love throughout the ages, Fink argues that it can Taking within his compass a vast array of traditions from Antiquity to the courtly love poets, Christian love, and Romanticism and providing an in depth examination of Freud and Lacan on love and libido, Fink unpacks Lacan s paradoxical claim that love is giving what you don t have He shows how the emptiness or lack we feel within ourselves gets covered over or entwined in love, and how it is possible and indeed vital to give something to another that we feel we ourselves don t have.This first ever commentary on Lacan s Seminar VIII, Transference, provides readers with a clear and systematic introduction to Lacan s views on love It will be of great value to students and scholars of psychology and of the humanities generally, and to analysts of all persuasions. Free Download Lacan on Love author Bruce Fink For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Great book I have come to understand what Lacan means now when he says love is giving what you don t have Very interesting observations on the dynamics of love A must read along with Jacques Lacan s Seminar VIII It has helped with my own journey as I imagine it will help with future Lacanians.Bedste bog om k rlighed, dybt og pr cist og vedkommendeWhile I think Bruce Fink is a good translator of Jacques Lacan s texts, my reading of Lacan to the Letter Reading crits Closely gave me a fairly negative view of his work as a critic and commentator For me, Fink is too much of a disciple, and that lack of a critical distance speaks to the weakness of his arguments.Lacan on Love didn t really change my views on Fink he remains too uncritical of Lacan for his books to be genuinely groundbreaking Nonetheless, this particular work is unquestio While I think Bruce Fink is a good translator of Jacques Lacan s texts, my reading of Lacan to the Letter Reading crits Closely gave me a fairly negative view of his work as a critic and commentator For me, Fink is too much of a disciple, and that lack of a critical distance speaks to the weakness of his arguments.Lacan on Love didn t really change my views on Fink he remains too uncritical of Lacan for his books to be genuinely groundbreaking Nonetheless, this particular work is unquestionably useful in certain respects For the reader who is new or unversed in Lacanian concepts, Fink is almost painstakingly gentle, giving numerous examples that walk the reader through the various psychoanalytic concepts.Now, as an advanced reader, there is a danger that I would find this book condescending or trite, but it is to Fink s credit that I did not There are certain concepts of...

Lacan on Love
  • 08 March 2017
  • ebook
  • 288 pages
  • 1509500537
  • Bruce Fink
  • Lacan on Love