The Virtual Point of Freedom

“Lorenzo Chiesa is one of the most profound and rigorous theorists writing on psychoanalysis today. These lucid and compelling essays broaden his already considerable range, taking in rich reflections on Pier Paolo Pasolini, the ontology of Giorgio Agamben, and the affective and psychic resonances of urban space. The book coheres around a spirited defense of the productivity of limitations and constraints, a message especially urgent amidst a theoretical milieu more often enamored of ultra-leftist posturing and anti-critical metaphysics.”
—Tom Eyers, author of Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real' and Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Postwar France

"Lorenzo Chiesa is one of the rare philosophers capable of making Lacan’s psychoanalytic apparatus interact with the various languages of continental thought—from philosophy to politics, urban studies, and literature. In a dense network of references to Pasolini, Deleuze, Žižek, Badiou, and Agamben, the author analyzes with great hermeneutic finesse the contrasts and antinomies affecting the contemporary world.” —Roberto Esposito, author of Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community