The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within

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T HE SINGULARITY OF BEING PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERVENTIONS e Esther Rashkin and Peter L. Rudnytsky, series editors Series Board: Salman Akhtar Anne Golomb Hoffman Peter Loewenberg Humphrey Morris Lois Oppenheim Henry Sussman THE SINGULARITY OF BEING Lacan and the ImmortalWithin e Mari Ruti Fordham University Press NewYork 2012 Copyright © 2012 Mari Ruti All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ruti, Mari. The singularity of being : Lacan and the immortal within / Mari Ruti. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Psychoanalytic interventions) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8232-4314-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-8232-4315-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Lacan, Jacques, 1901–1981. 2. Psychoanalysis. 3. Self. 4. Subjectivity. I. Title. bf109.l23r88 2012 150.19′5—dc23 2011051347 Printed in the United States of America 14 13 12 5 4 3 2 1 First edition ...