i'm reading 'dream, imagination and existence' by foucault and also a couple of other things on foucault....it strikes me that foucault's works are constantly termed as 'anti-psychoanalytic works' and that he himself didn't think much of psychoanalysis. yet, i cannot help but think his thoughts often come very close to psychoanalysis and could even go as far as terming him a object-relations theorist since he writes that the subject only tryly discloses itself by relations with/to others. i'd very much like to talk with someone about this. thoughts?
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Re: foucault and psychoanalysis
Tue, March 14, 2006 - 9:15 PMGoedendag,
well i don't think i am adept enough to discuss foucault and psychoanalysis exactly, w/ o further reading, but wonder if you've explored slavoj zizek, (there's an ok wikipage on him ) who i think is an incredible mix of philosophical musings and psychoanalysis ( lacanian). when i have time , i have been scanning articles on the net by him and getting my brain soaked in his pungent clarities and ... otherness.
and last year a film about him called Zizek passed thru town... and i later went to see him speak at the lacanian institute in berkeley...
since i was completely new to Lacan, whew, he lost me pretty quik, but every once in awhile he'd drop some popular culture reference and things would hit with precision again...
just to be brief, i remember this illuminating concept ... about culture in the west... US ...being Obliged To Enjoy... and somehow becoming unable to distnguish when a situation is inescapably miserable... it made me laugh out loud.
ciao,
podp
