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Jean-Claude Milner
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  • ISBN 9780810142848
  • Weight: 230g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Dec 2020
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In A Search for Clarity: Science and Philosophy in Lacan's Oeuvre, Jean-Claude Milner argues that although Jacques Lacan's writing is notoriously obscure his oeuvre is entirely clear. In a discussion that considers the difference between the esoteric and exoteric works of Plato and Aristotle, Milner argues that Lacan's oeuvre is to be found in his published writings alone, not his transcribed seminars, and that these published writings contain his official doctrine. This means that Lacan's oeuvre is already complete, even though many of his seminars remain unpublished.

According to Milner, Lacan's fundamental idea is that the subject psychoanalysis works on is the subject of science. Milner suggests that this is a supplement to Alexandre Koyré's and Alexandre Kojève's accounts of modern science, for which mathematization and a break from the ancient episteme were key. A Search for Clarity is the definitive statement on how Lacan viewed the relationship between psychoanalysis and science, and on how Lacan's thinking evolved as he struggled to draw out the consequences of the equation he posited between psychoanalysis and science.

In an afterword written specifically for this translation, Milner discusses how his views on the late Lacan have shifted since the writing of A Search for Clarity, especially regarding the significance of James Joyce, lalangue, and homophony. Milner's work on Lacan has been essential reading in French for decades. This English translation will make Milner's unique and illuminating work accessible to a broader audience.
About Ed Pluth | Jean-Claude Milner
Jean-Claude Milner is an emeritus professor of linguistics at Paris Diderot University and a former director of the Collège International de Philosophie. Milner was a student of Louis Althusser and attended Jacques Lacan's seminars. One of the founders of the trailblazing journal Cahiers pour l'analyse, Milner has published more than thirty-five books in French, ranging from contributions to linguistics, philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, history, pop culture, and politics.

Ed Pluth is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject and Alain Badiou: A Philosophy of the New.

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