Chicken Knowledge: Or, What Does the Nonhuman Want?

Authors

Gautam Basu Thakur, Boise State UniversityFollow
Jonathan Michael Dickstein

Document Type

Contribution to Books

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

This chapter claims that a productive dialogue can and should be forged between Freudian–Lacanian psychoanalytic teachings and critical evaluations of nonhuman complexes and elements—such as material objects, uncanny things, climate, animals, the text, the machine, and so on. With an overview of crucial overlapping themes, it situates the various chapters of this book by positing a question modeling the essential link between psychoanalysis and the nonhuman turn: What does the nonhuman want?

Comments

Lacan and the Nonhuman is a volume of The Palgrave Lacan Series (PALS).

Publication Information

Basu Thakur, Gautam and Dickstein, Jonathan Michael. (2018). "Chicken Knowledge: Or, What Does the Nonhuman Want?". In G. Basu Thakur and J. Dickstein (Eds.), Lacan and the Nonhuman (The Palgrave Lacan series, pp. 1-16). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63817-1_1