On the Possibility and Impossibility of a Theoretical Dialogue between Nietzsche and Lacan
Rodrigo Farías Rivas
Abstract:The present article examines contemporary scholarship attempting a theoretical convergence between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Nietzschean philosophy. The main positions, ideas and arguments of this scholarship are assessed. In doing so, the philosophical problem that immediately arises concerns the very possibility of such a theoretical dialogue. The thesis to be developed, then, is that superficial similarities rather obscure core theoretical, and even ontological, disagreements - and so besides the critical… Show more
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