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Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual

Wright, Colin

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Samo Tom�i?
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Andreja Zevnik
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Abstract

This chapter outlines the different conceptualisations of 'discourse' in the work of Foucault and Lacan. If Foucault's understanding has been much more influential in academic approaches such as Discourse Analysis, the links between Lacan's notion of discourse and the ethical stakes foregrounded by the clinic are, it is argued, potentially more useful to the politics of critique. This claim is explored through a Lacanian interpretation of the psychiatric 'bible', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, as a 'discourse' that fits what Lacan identified as the 'discourse of the capitalist'.

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Wright, C. (2016). Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual. In S. Tomšič, & A. Zevnik (Eds.), Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics. Routledge

Publication Date 2016
Deposit Date Sep 8, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Series Title Interventions
Book Title Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics
Chapter Number 9
ISBN 9780415724333
Keywords Lacan, Foucault, Discourse, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/758974
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/Jacques-Lacan-Between-Psychoanalysis-and-Politics/Tomsic-Zevnik/p/book/9780415724333
Additional Information This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics on 14 August 2015, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Jacques-Lacan-Between-Psychoanalysis-and-Politics/Tomsic-Zevnik/p/book/9780415724333

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