Name: Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book v
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Author: Lacan, Jacques ; Miller, Jacques-Alain ; Grigg, Russell
ISBN: 9780745660387

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Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book v

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Physical Book

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Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.82 kg.

ISBN13

9780745660387

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Synopsis "Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book v "

When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who introduces the dimension of an especially playful wit that runs through his work, as much in his prose as in more poetic forms, and which he brings into play even when he happens to be talking about mathematics, for he is also a mathematician. I am referring to Raymond Queneau. While we were exchanging our first remarks on the matter he told me a joke. It's a joke about exams, about the university entrance exams, if you like. We have a candidate and we have an examiner. - "Tell me", says the examiner, "about the battle of Marengo." The candidate pauses for a moment, with a dreamy air. "The battle of Marengo...? Bodies everywhere! It's terrible... Wounded everywhere! It's horrible..." "But", says the examiner, "Can't you tell me anything more precise about this battle?" The candidate thinks for a moment, then replies, "A horse rears up on its hind legs and whinnies." The examiner, surprised, seeks to test him a little further and says, "In that case, can you tell me about the battle of Fontenoy?" "Oh!" says the candidate, "a horse rears up on its hind legs and whinnies." The examiner, strategically, asked the candidate to talk about the battle of Trafalgar. The candidate replies, "Dead everywhere! A blood bath.... Wounded everywhere! Hundreds of them...." "But my good man, can't you tell me anything more precise about this battle?" "A horse..." "Excuse me, I would have you note that the battle of Trafalgar is a naval battle." "Whoah! Whoah!" says the candidate. "Back up, Neddy!" The value of this joke is, to my mind, that it enables us to decompose, I believe, what is at stake in a witticism. (Extract from Chapter VI)

Jacques Lacan

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(Paris, 1901 — 1981). He was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for the theoretical contributions he made to psychoanalysis based on analytical experience and the reading of Freud, while also incorporating elements of structuralism, structural linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy.

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Jacques-Alain Miller

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He is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He began his training with Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he met at the age of 16. He then entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where, in 1964, he met Jacques Lacan. He attended Roland Barthes' seminars at the École pratique des hautes études. He was a disciple of Louis Althusser, along with Jacques Rancière and Ettiene Balibar. Driven by Althusser to study Lacan's complete works, he later formed a close relationship with the psychoanalyst and married his daughter Judith.

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