A voice and nothing else

The voice was not an object of serious philosophical interest until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan, though each separately, placed it at the center of their theoretical concerns. In the work "Voice and Nothing More", one of the prominent representatives of the Ljubljana School of Lacanian psychoanalysis, a close friend and associate of Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar goes beyond the Derridian idea of "phonocentrism", instead returning to Lacan's statement that the voice is one of the most expressive embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. object Dollar argues that in addition to the two most common uses of the voice—as a bearer of meaning and as a source of aesthetic delight—there is a third level to the voice: the voice as an object in itself, a psychoanalytic object that meaning and wonder only mask. and muted. Dollar analyzes the voice-object in several different planes, successively considering the "physics" of the voice, the linguistics of the voice, the ethics of the voice and the politics of the voice, as well as the use of the voice in the texts of Freud and Kafka, building in the process of presenting his opinion a fundamental philosophical theory of the voice, which forces us to look at this, without exaggeration, unique human phenomenon in a way that we have never looked at it before.

Language: Ukrainian.
Number of pages: 304.
Cover: soft.
Year of publication: 2022.