Law and the Postmodern Mind : Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Law, Meaning, and Violence Series .
- Law, Meaning, and Violence Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Unique and Different Subject of Law -- 2. The Deconstruction of Kantian Ethics and the Question of Pleasure -- 3. Why Does the Law Need an Obscene Supplement? -- 4. The Vestal and the Fasces: Property and the Feminine in Law and Psychoanalysis -- 5. Love Me, Love My Dog -- 6. The Identity of the Constitutional Subject -- 7. The Other Dimension of Law -- 8. Sons of the Writ, Sons of Wrath: Pierre Legendre's Critique of Rational Law-Giving -- 9. Translating Legendre, or The Poetical Sermon of a Contemporary Jurist -- 10. Rethinking the Beyond of the Real -- 11. For the Love of Lacan -- Contributors -- Index.
Explores the connections between psychoanalysis and law.