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(2017) Psychoanalysis, philosophy and myth in contemporary culture, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter focuses on the quest for immortality and the origin of mankind. Drawing on Stiegler's commentary on the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, I discuss his convergence with Lacan in terms of interpretation (hermeneia) and the traversal of fantasies and scientific myths. In this chapter I also discuss an "omission'. Despite his philosophical acumen, Stiegler "forgets' to read Freud's fort/da scene as an early conjunction of hand, tool, death, and language. The scene, I argue, could be the symbolic-psychic antecedent of aporia in the age of technics.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-48347-8_6
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Voela, A. (2017). The search for origin in Ridley Scott's Prometheus, in Psychoanalysis, philosophy and myth in contemporary culture, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 183-213.
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