How Long to Read Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

How Long Does it Take to Read Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Shirley Zisser

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book explores the place of the flesh in the linguistically-inflected categories of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, drawing explicit attention to the organic as an inherent part of the linguistic categories that appear in the writings of Freud and Lacan. Lacan’s ‘return to Freud’ famously involves a ‘linguistic turn’ in psychoanalysis. The centering of language as a major operator in psychic life often leads to a dualistic or quasi-dualistic view in which language and the enjoyment of the body are polarized. Exploring the intricate connections of the linguistic and the organic in both Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis from its beginnings, Zisser shows that surprisingly, and not only in Lacan’s late teaching, psycho-linguistic categories turn out to be suffused with organicity. After unfolding the remnant of the flesh in the signifier as a major component of Lacan’s critique of Saussure, using visual artworks as objective correlatives as it does so, the book delineates two forms of psychic writing. These are aligned not only with two fundamental states of the psychic apparatus as described by Freud (pain and satisfaction), but with two ways of sculpting formulated by Alberti in the Renaissance but also referred to by Freud. Continuing in a Derridean vein, the book demonstrates the primacy of writing to speech in psychoanalysis, emphasizing how the relation between speech and writing is not binary but topological, as speech in its psychoanalytic conception is nothing but the folding inside-out of unconscious writing. Innovatively placing the flesh at the core of its approach, the text also incorporates the seminal work of psychoanalyst Michèle Montrelay to articulate the precise relation between the linguistic and the organic. Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis will be indispensable to psychoanalysts, literary theorists, rhetoricians, deconstructionists, and those studying at the intersection of psychoanalysis, language, and the visual arts.

How long is Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis?

Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis by Shirley Zisser is 196 pages long, and a total of 50,176 words.

This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis aloud.

What Reading Level is Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis?

Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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