University of Minnesota Press, 1994 Paper: 978-0-8166-1978-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-1977-1 Library of Congress Classification B2430.C633S9613 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 194
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword: East Meets West
Conley,
Verena Andermatt
Translators' Preface
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Where Am I?
1
Choosing Night
2
Philosophers and Their Daemons
3
Depriving the City of Spices: Plato Purges the Republic
4
The Owl and the Nightingale: Hegel and Hölderlin
5
Loves Me, Loves Me Not; or, The Love of Dialectic
6
Of Young Girls as Thought: Kierkegaard the Seducer
7
Abraham, and a Roasted Lamb's Head
8
The Great Attack
9
The Birth of Identity and the Syncope of the Imago: Lacan
10
“Inter faeces et urinas”: Tantrism Between Feces and Urine
11
Thought Burned Alive: Indian Philosophies
12
Syncope Leaves for the Forest: The Renouncers
13
Educational Love at First Sight: The Lady, the Guru, and the Psychoanalyst
14
Jouissances: Between the Angel and the Placenta
15
Ego Orgasm and the Indolence of the Subject
16
Syncope's Strategies: The Creative Act and the Un-Governing of the World