Bücher von Dylan Evans

Das Standardlexikon zur Orientierung im Werk Lacans. Lacan'sche Begriffe haben in verschiedenen Theoriebereichen einen großen Anwendungswert bewiesen, obwohl sein Werk nur schwer zu lesen und erst teilweise publiziert ist. Die 175 Stichworte dieses Wörterbuchs führen zu den wesentlichen Strukturen des Lacan'schen Denkens und erläutern die historischen und psychoanalytischen Wege von Freud zu Lacan.Mit Grafiken und Übersichten - z.B. zur Reihe des »Seminars«, zur Lacan'schen Algebra, Topologie usw. - bietet Dylan Evans' Wörterbuch wertvolle Werkzeuge an. Es ist ein verlässlicher Leitfaden für die Anwendung Lacan'scher Ansätze in den Human- und Kulturwissenschaften.Lacans »Rückkehr zu Freud« und seine Neufassungen der Freud'schen Termini werden in den historischen und institutionellen Kontext gestellt. Ebenso werden seine Bezugnahmen auf Saussure und die Philosophen von Platon über Hegel bis Heidegger erörtert. Eine kurze Chronologie zu Jacques Lacans Leben und Werk rundet das Bild ab.

As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope?In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech robotics lab, moved to the Scottish Highlands and founded a community called The Utopia Experiment. There, together with an eclectic assortment of volunteers, he tried to live out a scenario of global collapse, free from modern technology and comforts. Within a year, Evans found himself detained in a psychiatric hospital, shattered and depressed, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. In The Utopia Experiment he tells his own extraordinary story: his frenzied early enthusiasm for this unusual project, the many challenges of post-apocalyptic living, his descent into madness and his gradual recovery. In the process, he learns some hard lessons about himself and about life, and comes to see the modern world he abandoned in a new light.'A gripping, slow-motion car crash. You can't take your eyes off it' Julian Baggini, Financial Times'It radiates an intense intelligence and a candour that is never less than touching and, sometimes, downright heartrending' Daily Mail'Extraordinary . . . both frightening and compelling' GQ

This introductory work provides a source of reference for psychoanalysts in training and in practice, with detailed definitions of over 200 Lacanian terms. Attention is given both to Lacan's use of common psychoanalytic terms and how his own terminology developed through his teaching.