Studying Lacans Seminar VII

Studying Lacans Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacans ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacans ethics offer to the field of psychoanalytic thought today. The volume interrogates the seminar with fresh voices and situated curiosities and perspectives, making for a compellingly exciting range of explorations of the crucial matters related to an ethics of psychoanalysis. The chapters question and tease out the paradoxes Lacan draws attention to in his seminar of 19591960, and in addition, they offer radical engagements with the seminar in light of theories of racism, inequality, capitalism, education, and subjectivity. The key elements in Lacans seminar are explained, debated, and reconsidered with Antigone, das Ding, and the inevitable ne cder pas sur son dsir duly unpacked, examined, and ruminated upon. Studying Lacans Seminar VII will be of interest to psychoanalytic scholars and students of Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as psychoanalytic therapists and analysts. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of politics, philosophy, and studies at the intersections of racism, film, feminism, sociology, gender, and queer theory.