Ebook: Jacques the sophist: Lacan, logos, and psychoanalysis

"In a highly original rereading of the writings and seminars of Jacques Lacan, together with works of Freud and others, Cassin shows how psychoanalysis, like the sophists, challenges the very foundations of scientific rationality. In taking seriously equivocations, jokes, and unfinishable projects of interpretation, the analyst, like the sophist, allows performance, signifier, and inconsistency to reshape truth"--;Prologue: "how kind of you to recognize me" -- Doxography and psychoanalysis, or relegating truth to the lowly status it deserves -- The presence of the sophist in our time -- Logos-Pharmakon -- Sense and nonsense, or Lacan's anti-Aristotelianism -- The jouissance of language, or Lacan's ab-Aristotelianism -- Epilogue: the drowning of a fish.