L'Entendement freudien: Logos et Anankè (Used Paperback) - Paul-Laurent Assoun

(Translation of book description)

"I have two gods: Logos and Anankè, the inflexible reason, the necessary destiny." To recognize the Anankè, this faceless figure of destiny, and immediately to couple it with the Logos, this is Freud's requirement or rather the task required of him by the object he assigns to psychoanalysis: to think the unconscious. The investigation conducted here to identify the Freudian reform of understanding implied by such a requirement comprises three stages. It starts from the "thinking" itself - thought of the disorder and disorder of thought - to lead to the mystical and the archaic where the metapsychological Logos confronts its intimate otherness; it finally returns to the very reality of Kultur and politics. From one end to the other, Logos and Anankè confirm themselves as the tutelary deities of Freudian understanding until their in-between: illusion. Freud does not only discover: he institutes. To say about him today, to stick to him, is therefore not to repeat or comment on him but to identify the conditions of possibility of his radical intervention in the field of knowledge to restore its full clinical effect.