Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture
by Catherine Clement
University of Minnesota Press, 1994
Cloth: 978-0-8166-1977-1 | Paper: 978-0-8166-1978-8
Library of Congress Classification B2430.C633S9613 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 194
TOC
- 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
- Conclusion: Deceiving Death and Embracing God
- Notes
- Index
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