Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key

by Bruce Fink

Book Overview

2014 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize winner for Best Anthology

Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar, transforms the radically other into the same, and renders practitioners deaf to what is actually being said in the analytic setting. Running...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415635438
• ISBN13: 9780415635431
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"