Writing For (a) First Cause
The Fourth Philosophy Portal Anthology
ABSTRACT: Lacan's Écrits, his writings, represents the height of his psychoanalytically-informed philosophy. Writing For (a) First Cause is an anthology that results from an extended mediation of these writings. This anthology operates at the site of the intersection between psychoanalysis and philosophy, avoiding both "pure philosophy" cut from the clinic, as well as the "clinical core" without philosophical reflection. Throughout the anthology you will find several texts which are engaging the dimension of the subject's lack as the truth of first causation, and then writing from this standpoint. This standpoint does not seek to obliterate or make irrelevant traditional metaphysical causation, but seeks to articulate how one might think about these dimensions from the standpoint of the subject as first cause.
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Note on the Écrits by Cadell Last
Editor’s Note by Daniel L. Garner of O.G. Rose
Foreword by Cadell Last
Introduction: Stakes for Psychoanalytic Philosophy by Cadell Last
Chapter 0: Love of Truth by Prof. Dr. Samuel McCormick
Chapter 1: The Écrits in a Nutshell: Desire to Drive by Cadell Last
Chapter 2: The Love(craft) that Moves the Sun and Other Stars by Daniel L. Garner (O.G. Rose)
Chapter 3: The Clinic in the Culture: On the Effect of Affect-Naming by Edie Hitchcock
Chapter 4: From Écrit to Embodiment: Lacan's Journey from Signifier to Toroidal Information by Mark G. Murphy
Chapter 5: Lacan’s Crazy Wisdom by Thomas Hamelryck
Chapter 6: Full Speech, Empty Speech, and the Riddle of the Loneliest One by Joris de Kelver
Chapter 7: The Cruelty of Love by Sinziana Ravini
Chapter 8: How to Hystericise a Perverted Society? by Cadell Last
Chapter 9: Simulating Sexual Difference: Lacanian Perspectives and the Turing Test in AI by Davide Pasti
Chapter 10: Driverest: Withdrawal through Sublimation by Łukasz Silski
Chapter 11: Lacanian Stewardship by Phillip Shinn
Chapter 12: From the Exoteric to the Esoteric (and back again?) by Matthew Stanley
Chapter 13: “A Striking Negligence”: The Maternal Ordeal in Lacan by Cleo Kearns
Chapter 14: What Doesn’t Work by Dimitri Crooijmans
Chapter 15: Towards a Comedic Relation by Phillip Shinn
Chapter 16: Immortal Drive Beyond Deconstruction by Cadell Last
Afterword by Cadell Last
Note on the Écrits (Extended) by Cadell Last
To celebrate the release of our fourth anthology, Philosophy Portal hosted an anthology launch event on Wednesday August 13th. You can access the recording below:
