Published: 2015-12-30

Escape from Psychoanalysis

Didier Eribon , Wojciech Śmieja

Abstract

The author offers a critical judgment of Lacanian psychoanalysis, pointing out its normativizing aspect. He acknowledges the impossibility of reconciliation of psychoanalytic thought with the theory of radical difference, the example of which is queer, which has been postulated by such scholars as Judith Butler, Lee Edelman or Leo Bersani. As Eribon claims, queer theory constitutes a continuation of (antipsychoanalytic) philosophy of Michel Foucault, and it would be theoretically much more inspiring – Eribon further argues – to try to juxtapose Foucault’s thought with Sartre rather than with Freud or Lacan.

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Eribon, D., & Śmieja, W. (2015). Escape from Psychoanalysis. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 7(2), 179–189. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8760

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015)
Published: 2015-12-30


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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