Overview
- The most detailed commentary on Lacan's 'Kant with Sade' essay to date
- Offers insight into work only translated into English in 2006
- Written by a world expert in Lacanian theory
- Unpacks the dense and often seemingly impenetrable nature of Lacan's language and style
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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Reviews
“Dany Nobus has achieved something that I would have thought impossible: he has taken what is arguably the most difficult text in Lacan’s Écrits, and—by dint of his well-known perspicacity and a close study of thousands of pages of Sade’s work, and hundreds more by Kant, Bataille, Klossowski, and numerous others—unfolded it step-by-step so that we ordinary mortals can get a decent grasp on it. He has even convincingly criticized my own published translation of Kant with Sade, forcing me to rethink and revise a text I worked so hard on. I couldn't recommend his book more highly!” (Bruce Fink, Lacanian analyst, translator of several works by Lacan, and author of numerous books on Lacan)
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About the author
Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalysis at Brunel University London, and Chair of the Freud Museum London, UK. He is the author of Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis, and, with Malcolm Quinn, Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology, alongside numerous papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Law of Desire
Book Subtitle: On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’
Authors: Dany Nobus
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55275-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55274-3Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85614-8Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55275-0Published: 20 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 175
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Behavior, Moral Philosophy, Literary Theory