Lacan and the question of the psychotherapist's ethical orientation

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 657-683

  Olivier, Bert ^a  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ethics; Imaginary; Psychotherapy; Real; Symbolic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747037875     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124630503500404     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Benvenuto, B. and Kennedy, R. (1986). The works of Jacques Lacan: An introduction. London: Free Association Books.
2. Bowie, M. (1991). Lacan. London: Fontana Press.
3. Caputo, J. D. (Ed.) (1997). Deconstruction in a nutshell. A conversation with Jacques Derrida. New York: Fordham University Press.
4. Coetzee, J. M. (2000). Disgrace. London: Vintage.
5. Copjec, J. (1996). Introduction: Evil in the finite time of the world. In J. Copjec (Ed.), Radical evil (pp. vii-xxviii). London: Verso.
6. _. (2002). Imagine there's no woman: Ethics and sublimation. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press.
7. Derrida, J. (2003). Autoimmunity: Real and symbolic suicides - A dialogue with Jacques Derrida. In G. Borradori, Philosophy in a time of terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (pp. 85-136). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Foucault, M. (1990). Politics and reason. In L. D. Kritzman (Ed.), Michel Foucault: Politics, philosophy, culture. Interviews and other writings 1977-1984 (pp. 57-85). New York: Routledge.
9. Freud, S. (1957). The origin and development of psychoanalysis (Tr. H. W. Chase). In J. Rickman (Ed.), A general selection from the works of Sigmund Freud (pp. 3-36). New York: Doubleday Anchor.
10. Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2001). Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
11. Irigaray, L. (1994). Speculum of the other woman (Tr. G. C. Gill). New York: Cornell University Press.
12. Kristeva, J. (1997). The portable Kristeva. New York: Columbia University Press.
13. Lacan, J. (1977a). The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. In Écrits: A selection (Tr. A. Sheridan), (pp. 1-7). New York: W. W. Norton.
14. _. (1977b). The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis. In Écrits: A selection. (Tr. A. Sheridan), (pp. 30-113). New York: W. W. Norton.
15. _. (1977c). The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud. In Écrits: A selection (Tr. A. Sheridan), (pp. 146-178). New York: W. W. Norton.
16. _. (1977d). The direction of the treatment and the principles of its power. In Écrits: A selection (Tr. A. Sheridan), (pp. 226-280). New York: W. W. Norton.
17. _. (1977e). On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis. In Écrits: A selection (Tr. A. Sheridan), (pp. 179-225). New York: W. W. Norton.
18. _. (1977f). The signification of the phallus. In Écrits: A selection (Tr. A. Sheridan), (pp. 281-291). New York: W. W. Norton.
19. _. (1981). The four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis. (Seminar 11) (Tr. A. Sheridan). New York: W. W. Norton.
20. _. (1997). The seminar of Jacques Lacan - Book VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Tr. D. Porter). New York: W. W. Norton.
21. Lee, J. (1990). Jacques Lacan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
22. Lyotard, J-F. (1984). The postmodern condition (Tr. G. Bennington and B. Massumi). Manchester: University of Manchester Press.
23. Mitchell, S.A. and Black, M. J. (1995). Freud and beyond: A history of modern psychoanalytic thought. New York: Basic Books.
24. Olivier, B. (1998). Freud and Lyotard on civilization. South African Journal of Philosophy, 17(2), 126-141.
25. _. (2000). Discourse, genealogy, social theory and a society in transition: The challenge facing the human sciences. Society in Transition, 31(1), 45-57.
26. _. (2001). Discourse, space and violence. In C. Von Maltzan and R. Wilson (Eds), Spaces and crossings: Essays on literature and culture in Africa and beyond (pp. 301-318). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Publishers.
27. _. (2003a). Lacan: Problematisering van die filosofie (Lacan: Problematising philosophy) Fragmente, 10 & 11, 42-54.
28. _. (2003b). Discourse, agency and the question of evil. (An examination of the so-called 'ripper-rapist' case from a perspective opened up by Joan Copjec, Kant and Foucault.) South African Journal of Philosophy, 22(4), 329-348.
29. _. (2004). Lacan's subject: The imaginary, language, the real and philosophy. South African Journal of Philosophy, 23(1), 1-19.
30. _. (2004b). 'Passive' nihilism in Clark's Kids and Hardwicke's Thirteen. South African Journal of Art History, 19, 97-108.
31. Painter, D., and Terre Blanche, M. (2004). Critical psychology in South Africa: Looking back and looking ahead. South African Journal of Psychology, 34(4), 520-543.
32. Parker, I. (2001). Lacan, psychology and the discourse of the university. Psychoanalytic Studies, 3(1), 67-77.
33. Sykes, J. B. (Ed.) (1983). Concise Oxford English dictionary of current English. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
34. Žižek, S. (1993). 'The thing that thinks': The Kantian background of the noir subject. In J. Copjec (Ed.) Shades of noir-A reader (pp. 199-226). London: Verso.
35. _. (2000a). Foreword: Why is Kant worth fighting for? In A. Zupancic (Ed.), Ethics of the real. Kant, Lacan (pp. vii-xiii). New York: Verso.
36. _. (2000b). Da capo senza fine. In J. Butler, E. Laclau and S. Žižek (Eds), Contingency, hegemony, universality: Contemporary dialogues on the left (pp. 213-262). New York: Verso.
37. Zupancic, A. (2000). Ethics of the real. Kant, Lacan. New York: Verso.