Cogito and the unconscious /
The Cartesian cogito - the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"--Is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woe...
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Cogito as the subject of the unconscious / Mladen Dolar
- The subject of the law / Alenka Zupančič
- Four discourses, four subjects / Slavoj Žižek
- The case of Polyphemus, or, a monster and its mother / Alain Grosrichard
- Malebranche's occasionalism, or, philosophy in the garden of Eden / Miran Božovič
- The silence of the feminine jouissance / Renata Salecl
- A sovereign's anatomy : the antique in Bataille's modernity and its impact on his political thought / Marc de Kessel
- Negation and its reliabilities : an empty subject for ideology? / Robert Pfaller
- The Cartesian subject versus the Cartesian theater / Slavoj Žižek.