Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as... (more)
Lacan Reading Joyce
This book discusses Jacques Lacan's contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler's influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 32: Lacanian Politics and the Impasses of Democracy Today
Editorial, Bogdan Wolf
Orthodoxy and Heresy
Jacques-Alain Miller, Heretics
Domenico Cosenza, The Heretic and the Orthodox
Francesca Biagi-Chai, Choice and Its Logic in... (more)
Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject: Historical Studies in Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies -... (more)
Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis
Many first-time readers of Jacques Lacan come to his work via psychology, a discipline that Lacan was notoriously antagonistic toward. Six Moments in Lacan takes up the dual challenge of introducing... (more)
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis examines the relationship between art and death from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It takes a unique approach to the topic by making explicit... (more)
The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan
In The Logic of Sexuation, Ellie Ragland offers a detailed account of Jacques Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.
Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology
This work examines how feminism changes the ways we understand ourselves and others. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Campbell examines contemporary feminism's turn to accounts of... (more)
Lacan in the German-Speaking World
This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection... (more)
Having a Life: Self Pathology After Lacan
What is it about "having a life" - which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain... (more)
The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so. (more)
The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan
In The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than three... (more)
Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction
Since the publication of his first book in English in 1989, Slavoj Zizek has quickly become one of the most widely read and contentious intellectuals alive today. With dazzling wit and tremendous... (more)
Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely
To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be... (more)
After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious
After Lacan combines abundant case material with graceful yet sophisticated theoretical exposition in order to explore the clinical practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis. (more)
Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love,Knowledge, and Feminin
A collection of essays offering sustained in-depth commentary on Seminar XX Encore, considered the cornerstone of Lacan's work on the themes of sexual difference, knowledge, jouissance, and love. (more)
The Letter 40: Irish Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Spring 2009
Schizophrenia and Psychoanalysis: Brief Observations from Contemporary American Psychiatric Literature - Kevin Malone; Schizophrenia in Freud and Lacan: No Return to pre-Kraepelinian Bewilderment -... (more)
What Is Sex?
Consider sublimation - conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from... (more)
Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'the Freudian Thing'
This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan's most important texts, wherein he explains... (more)
The Law of Desire: On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade'
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan's Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed... (more)
Peversion Now!
This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion',... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.31: Brief Encounters
Editorial, Roger Litten
Political
Judith Miller, The Next Stage of PIPOL
Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Ten Axioms
Jean-Daniel Matet, New Relations to the Clinic and to... (more)
There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan
Published in 1973, L'Etourdit was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations,... (more)
Humanisation?: Psychoanalysis, Symbolisation, and the Body of the Unconscious
Unquenched desire, the dividing up of the drives, repetition, and symptom are the keywords concerning the effects on the body of the unconscious as deciphered by Freud. Harmony is not on the agenda,... (more)
Lacanian Treatment: Psychoanalysis for Clinicians
Secret wishes, forbidden pleasures, and painful memories hide below the false bottom of consciousness. How do we decipher the desire and pleasure located between the words spoken in psychotherapeutic... (more)
Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan
It is unlikely that Jacques Lacan and Alice Munro were ever aware of each other's work. Yet, because of Munro's intuitive grasp of the complexities of human subjectivity and her ability to articulate... (more)
Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction
The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth and twenty-first century thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his... (more)