Lacan and Levi-Strauss, or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)
On Lacan's return to Freud, 1951 to 1957.
The thesis of this work is simple: Lacan returns to Freud by means of Levi-Strauss.
Markos Zafiropoulos reconstructs the years in which Jacques Lacan built his return to Freud, from the 1951 paper on transference to the texts of the mid-1950s. He follows the seminars and writings of the period closely and argues a single line: that Lacan reaches Freud by way of Claude Levi-Strauss, whose account of symbolic function and kinship gave the return its structure.
The book traces how the symbolic order, the place of speech, and the Name-of-the-Father took shape as Lacan absorbed and reworked structural anthropology. Zafiropoulos treats this debt as something later readers set aside, and he restores it as the source of the concepts.
For a clinician, it sets out where terms in daily use came from and what they were built to do. The original French appeared before this edition, translated by John Holland for the CFAR Library.
About the author
Markos Zafiropoulos
Markos Zafiropoulos is a French psychoanalyst and sociologist working in the Lacanian tradition. He is a director of research at the CNRS in Paris, where his work centres on the history and theory of psychoanalysis. He is known for detailed studies of Jacques Lacan and the intellectual sources of the return to Freud, including his reading of Claude Levi-Strauss. His books include 'Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)' and 'Lacan and the Social Sciences'.
Details
- 2010
- 2010
- French
- John Holland
- Routledge
- Routledge
- 242
- 9781855757264