Extimacy

by Nadia Bou Ali (Editor), Surti Singh (editor), Alejandro Cerda-Rueda (contributor)

Bringing together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis to interrogate Lacan’s notion of extimité

In 1960, Jacques Lacan coined the neologism extimité (extimacy) to denote a structure of subjectivity in which the most intimate, internal core is already external, thus complicating the traditional philosophical dualisms and binaries that have informed traditional notions of subjectivity. This collection is the first sustained interrogation of the concept of extimacy, comprising contributions on various topics by leading and emerging philosophers and scholars of psychoanalytic theory from around the world. This international collection also includes key perspectives from practicing psychoanalysts and presents a variety of critical inquiries into the concept of extimacy for application in multiple disciplines beyond philosophy and in an array of methodological and thematic frameworks.

207 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2024

Reviews

[leren_lezen · Rating 4 out of 5]

On why the psychic, the philosophical and the political are intertwined, and we cannot answer questions about one of those three without any of those three. And ofc amazing because extimacy must be one of the most poetic Lacanian concepts, which ironically is almost nowhere (external) in Lacanian psychoanalysis, but that's precisely why it is at the heart of it <3.