Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids

Pablo Lerner's book Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis challenges the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis by proposing the existence of a primordial real void outside and independent of language. He re-thinks the structure and functioning of Lacans three orders and their complex interrelations, offering radical and original perspectives on a diverse range of psychoanalytical, philosophical, and theological topics. The book spans themes such as creation and poetry, death and solitude, intuition and mysticism, truth and being, pantheism and polytheism, and introduces a new mathematical conceptualization of psychoanalytic metapsychology and the clinical structures. It offers new psychoanalytic perspectives of great interest for practitioners and scholars in these fields.

Format: Hardback
Length: 110 pages
Publication date: 02 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In his groundbreaking work, Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner challenges and extends the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis, which emphasizes the sovereignty of language and jouissance. Lerner argues for the existence of a primordial real void that exists outside and independent of language. He re-evaluates the structure and functioning of Lacan's three orders, namely the symbolic, imaginary, and real, and their intricate interrelationships. Silence, darkness, and emptiness are the names of the voids within these orders, and they converge in the gaps between them. By re-conceptualizing the fundamental structure of subjectivity, Lerner offers radical and original perspectives on a wide range of psychoanalytical, philosophical, and theological topics.

The book is organized into chapters that cover various themes, including creation and poetry, death and solitude, intuition and mysticism, truth and being, pantheism and polytheism, the poetic art of interpretation, and the introduction of a new mathematical conceptualization of psychoanalytic metapsychology and clinical structures.

This volume provides valuable new psychoanalytic perspectives that will be of interest to practitioners and scholars in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and literary studies. Lerner's innovative approach to psychoanalysis offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the complex workings of the mind and the human experience.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032244785