Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance: Levels, Symbols, and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis
Author: Raul Moncayo File Type: pdf This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic organizations.Underpinned by extensive practical knowledge of the clinic, this work examines the differences between Freud and Lacan in their understanding of the subject and the unconscious and pushes them in new directions. The book also offers an analysis and commentary of several key Lacanian texts including an accessible study of the notoriously challenging text Letourdit. Offering both divergent and reinforcing takes on Lacan, the author explores the traits that separate out the psychoanalyst from other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists. This book offers a clear clinical picture of where Lacanian psychoanalysis is today, both in the US and internationally. **From the Back Cover This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice and the hierarchical versus circular transmissions within psychoanalytic organizations. Underpinned by extensive practical knowledge of the clinic, this work examines the differences between Freud and Lacan in their understanding of the subject and the unconscious and pushes them in new directions. The book also offers an analysis and commentary of several key Lacanian texts including an accessible study of the notoriously challenging text Letourdit. Offering both divergent and reinforcing takes on Lacan, the author explores the traits that separate out the psychoanalyst from other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists. This book offers a clear clinical picture of where Lacanian psychoanalysis is today, both in the US and internationally. About the Author Raul Moncayo is a supervising analyst of the The Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA. Dr. Moncayo has been adjunct faculty in several local universities over the years, continues to supervise doctoral dissertations, travelled as a visiting professor across North American, European, and South American universities and is the author of five books.
Author: Kurt Johansson
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from a href=httpmonoskop.orglog?p=9598httpmonoskop.orglog?p=9598aThis book attempts to give an outline of Aleksej Gastevs life and works primarily up until 1920.Aleksej Gastev (1882-1941?) belonged to the Russian proletarian intelligentsia. He was an active revolutionary, a journalist with syndicalist leanings, a metal-worker and trade-union leader, and one of the best proletarian poets. In later years he became perhaps the most important champion of the Taylor system and scientific management in Russia as the founder and leader of the Institute of Labour (CIT) in Moscow he trained hundreds of thousands of new workers for Soviet industry. In 1938 he fell a victim to the Stalinist terror.Besides presenting his biography, the present study tries to trace the development of Gastevs Utopian ideas about the creation of a New Man suited to the industrial society of the future. In his articles and poems the worker is so Intimately fused with machines that he adopts their rhythm and functional movements, himself becoming mechanical. One chapter is specially devoted to Gastevs poetry, the collection Poezija rabocego udara (The Poetry of the Factory Floor). Four prose poems are analyzed in detail. These describe the future development of the proletariat, and also show how Gastev s manner of writing gradually becomes a kind of Taylorized poetry, that has been strongly influenced by futurism.
Author: Liang Cai
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When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141 87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qian s The Grand Scribe s Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 91 87 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come. Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under Chinas Emperor Wu.When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (14187 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qians The Grand Scribes Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 9187 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come.
Author: Andrew F. Smith
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McDonalds founder Ray Kroc once said, It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. The hamburger has been a staple of American culture for the last century, both a source of gluttonous joy and a recurrent obstacle to healthy eating. Now the full beauty of the burger in all its forms is explored in Hamburger, a debut title in Reaktion Books new Edible series. Andrew F. Smith traces the trajectory of hamburger history, from its humble beginnings as a nineteenth-century street food sold by American vendors, from which it soon spread to the menus of diners and restaurants. The sandwich came into its own with the 1921 opening of the first hamburger chain, White Castle, and subsequent successful food chains such as McDonalds and Wendys ensured the burgers success in the United States and around the world. The hamburger irrevocably changed American life, Smith argues, as the sandwich propelled the rise of fast food over home-cooked meals in Americans eating habits. At the same time, burgers were making inroads in American culture, as well as becoming a rich symbol in paintings, television, and movies. Smith also discusses the darker nutritional, economic, and cultural conflicts raised by the hamburger, such as the McDonaldization of international cultures. A juicy and richly illustrated read, Hamburger will stimulate the taste buds of carnivores the world over.
Author: David A. Bender
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This valuable book continues to fulfil the purpose of explaining the technical terms in nutrition and food processing. Chemistry and Industry A dictionary that fills a need and fills it well. Institute of Meat Bulletin The book covers all aspects of food and nutrition scienceI use the dictionary on an almost daily basis. British Nutrition Foundation Nutrition Bulletin The study of food and nutrition covers many disciplines, ranging from agriculture, biology, physics and chemistry to food technology, nutrition and medicine. As research on the links between food and health continues to expand, it is more important than ever that specialists in such areas as food processing and nutrition be familiar with the often unfamiliar terminology that differing disciplines use. This classic book meets that need. It provides succinct, authoritative definitions of over 6100 terms in nutrition and food technology (an increase of 20% from the previous edition). The book also includes nutrient composition data for 340 foods and an appendix with nutrient intake and other useful data.ullAn essential reference for all involved in food sciencellUpdated eighth edition of this classic booklul**
Author: Damian Alan Pargas
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The study of slavery has grown strongly in recent years, as scholars working in several disciplines have cultivated broader perspectives on enslavement in a wide variety of contexts and settings. Critical Readings on Global Slavery offers students and researchers a rich collection of previously published works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field. With contributions covering various regions and time periods, this anthology encourages readers to view slave systems across time and space as both ubiquitous and interconnected, and introduces those who are interested in the study of human bondage to some of the most important and widely cited works in slavery studies.
Author: Peter G. Brown
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A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture.ullEncourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.llReflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature.llStresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature.llExplores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion.llIncludes close readings of frequently-studied texts, including texts by Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Hoccleve.llConfronts some of the controversies that exercise students of medieval literature, such as those connected with literary theory, love, and chivalry and war.lulReviewDonThese thorough, engaging essays decertify many canonical certainties Highly Recommended. CHOICEAnother grand project that combines breadth and depth A highly eminent collection of thirty-eight contributions ranges over a variety of topics.Medium AevumThere is plenty here for everybody, and all of it written in a way accessible to the general reader as well as to the student, or fellow specialist.--Reference ReviewsBook DescriptionA Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350ndashc.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries in a number of important ways. Firstly, the companionrsquos date range reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Secondly, the structure of the book stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature. Thirdly, the companion explores the extent to which medieval literature is in dialogue with other cultural products, including the literature of other countries, manuscripts and religion. Students will welcome the companionrsquos close readings of frequently studied texts, together with its discussions of larger groupings, such as the literature of religious instruction, dream poems, and chronicle and history. They will also appreciate the way the book tackles controversies, including those connected with literary theory, love, chivalry and war.
Author: Moshe Lewin
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The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevantperhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack of accessible documentation, but also because it lay at the heart of an ideological confrontation which obscured the reality of the Soviet regime. In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin traces this history in all its complexity, drawing widely upon archive material previously unavailable. Highlighting key factors such as demography, economics, culture and political repression, Lewin guides us through the inner workings of a system which is still barely understood. In the process he overturns widely held beliefs about the USSRs leaders, the State-Party system and the Soviet bureaucracy, the tentacled octopus which held the real power. Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century takes in all the continuities and ruptures that led, via a complex route, from the founding revolution of October 1917 to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship and the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years. **html