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|name = Lacan the Charlatan

|publisher = Palgrave MacMillan

|pub_date = 2020

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|edition = Hardcover

|isbn = 9783030452032, 9783030452049

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==About this book==

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques [[Lacan]] by Noam [[Chomsky]] in an interview in 1989. He stated that Lacan was a “charlatan” – not that his [[ideas]] were flawed or wrong, but that his entire [[discourse]] was fraudulent, an accusation that has since been repeated by many [[other]] critics. Examining the arguments of key anti-[[Lacanian]] critics, Mathews weighs and contextualizes the legitimacy of Lacan’s engagements with [[structural]] [[linguistics]], [[mathematical]] [[formalization]], [[science]], [[ethics]], [[Hegelian]] dialectics, and [[psychoanalysis]]. The guiding thread is Lacan’s own recurrent interrogation of [[authority]], which inhabits an ambiguous zone between [[mastery]] and charlatanry. This book offers a novel contribution to the field for students and scholars of psychoanalysis, [[philosophy]], [[sociology]], critical and [[literary]] [[theory]].

{{Quotation|"Mathews is that rarest of scholars in psychoanalytic studies: someone brave enough to consult works he disagrees with, and then able to produce smart, judicious, and fair-minded commentary and critique. Likewise, his interventions into the work and legacies of the best critics of Lacan, such as Roustang and Borch-Jacobsen, is not just overdue; it is often revelatory. Lacan the Charlatan is a major contribution to the literature - one of interest to scholars of literature, philosophy, and sociology - that will still be worth reading in twenty years."|Todd Dufresne||Professor of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Canada}}

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