Overview
- Offers a timely intervention into Lacanian psychoanalysis, environmental studies, geography, philosophy, and literary studies
- Argues that a broad and rigorous understanding of the environment will allow us to better conceive of how we understand ecological crises
- Illustrates psychoanalysis’ relevance as a body of thought for current social, psychical, and environmental concerns
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Lacanian Theory
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Front Matter
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Our Knowledge on Climate Change
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About this book
It offers a timely intervention into Lacanian theory, environmental studies, geography, philosophy, and literary studies that illustrates the relevance of psychoanalysis to current social and environmental concerns.
Reviews
(Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK)
“The defining crisis of our time is ecocide. Upending conventional distinctions between exterior and interior, psychoanalysis proves an unexpectedly rich resource for thinking and acting against destruction, displacement, and extinction. These smart, urgent essays consider a broad range of cultural contexts, illustrate the centrality of fantasy, desire, and symbolization to ecological transformation, and should inspire and terrify readers of many stripes.”
(Anna Kornbluh, Department of English, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
“This brilliant edited volume not only reveals the environment to be an enduring theme in Lacan’s oeuvre, but also rethinks and reworks Lacan environmentally, showing “nature” to be a site of both play and anxiety, interiority and radical externality, pleasure and pollution. Our study of the environment will never be the same.”
(Ilan Kapoor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Clint Burnham is Chair of the Graduate Program and Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, and President of the Lacan Salon, Vancouver, Canada.
Paul Kingsbury is Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University, and Vice President of the Lacan Salon Vancouver, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lacan and the Environment
Editors: Clint Burnham, Paul Kingsbury
Series Title: The Palgrave Lacan Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67205-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67204-1Published: 16 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67207-2Published: 17 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67205-8Published: 15 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4196
Series E-ISSN: 2946-420X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, general, Environmental Geography, Philosophy of Nature, Environment, general, Critical Theory