TY - BOOK ID - 16242236 TI - Irrepressible Truth : On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’ PY - 2017 SN - 3319575147 3319575139 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Psychology. KW - Philosophy, Ancient. KW - Philosophy of mind. KW - Psychoanalysis. KW - Psychology KW - Psychological measurement. KW - Self. KW - Identity (Psychology). KW - Psychological Methods/Evaluation. KW - Self and Identity. KW - Psychosocial Studies. KW - Classical Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of Mind. KW - Methodology. KW - Lacan, Jacques, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Psychological tests and testing. KW - Social psychology. KW - Philosophy, classical. KW - Mind, Philosophy of KW - Mind, Theory of KW - Theory of mind KW - Philosophy KW - Cognitive science KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Mass psychology KW - Psychology, Social KW - Human ecology KW - Social groups KW - Sociology KW - Personal identity KW - Consciousness KW - Individuality KW - Mind and body KW - Personality KW - Thought and thinking KW - Will KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Psychology—Methodology. KW - Ancient philosophy KW - Greek philosophy KW - Philosophy, Greek KW - Philosophy, Roman KW - Roman philosophy KW - Self KW - Ego (Psychology) KW - Measurement, Mental KW - Measurement, Psychological KW - Psychological measurement KW - Psychological scaling KW - Psychological statistics KW - Psychometry (Psychophysics) KW - Scaling, Psychological KW - Psychological tests KW - Scaling (Social sciences) KW - Measurement KW - Scaling KW - Methodology KW - Psychological Methods. KW - Philosophy of the Self. KW - Social Psychology. KW - Ancient Philosophy / Classical Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16242236 AB - This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston’s Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan’s teachings. ER -