On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage

by Cindy Zeiher and Ed Pluth

This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language. Unlike other disciplines and discourses the authors do not treat silence as a mystical-impossible beyond, at the cost of demoting the value of language and thought. Rather than treating silence with awe and wonder, this book puts silence to work, and it does so in order to deal with the inevitable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030281469
• ISBN13: 9783030281465
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"