Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of... (more)
The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative anlyses of political power and authority,... (more)
Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on... (more)
Jacques Lacan: Critical Thinker
This volume provides an excellent introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, covering all of Lacan's major concepts such as the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real. (more)
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
Dr Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the... (more)
The Feminine No!: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon
Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.
The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates... (more)
The Pathology of Democracy: A Letter to Bernard Accoyer and to Enlightened Opinion - JLS Supplement (Ex-tensions)
On Wednesday 8 October 2003, the French National Assembly passed a bill intended to regulate, for the first time, the practice of psychotherapy in France. Moved by Bernard Accoyer, the purpose of the... (more)
Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences
The title by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of an inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and... (more)
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's... (more)
Zizek: A Critical Introduction
Hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times, Zizek's work is a powerful combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy. His writings to date are presented and... (more)
Conversations with Zizek
This title offers a series of conversations which illustrate the originality of Slavoj Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism,... (more)
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacans often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this... (more)
Art: Sublimation or Symptom
Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo,... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan V: The Formations of the Unconscious
From unedited French manuscripts
Childhood Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and... (more)
Lacan and Science
The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering.... (more)
Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops us from Seeing
Taking the intriguing story of the Mona Lisa's two year disappearance as his starting point, Darian Leader explores the psychology of looking at visual art. This is a book about why we look at art... (more)
Ecrits: A Selection
Jacques Lacan has had a major influence on contemporary discourse. This translation of selected writings from his famous work offers access to nine of his most significant contributions to... (more)
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (more)
Opera's Second Death
This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a... (more)
The Deleuze connections:
A study of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this book isolates the logic at the heart of his theories to reveal its implications for social, cultural and artistic theory. Through clarifying the aim... (more)
A Compendium of Lacanian Terms
This title aims to give a clear, helpful exposition on some 40 key terms in Lacanian thought. Each entry outlines the idea, locating it within Lacanian discourse, and the evolution of the term within... (more)
Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide
Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian... (more)
A queer chivalry: The homoerotic asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian... (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis
This work examines Lacan and his ideas and shows how they can become more accessible. Structured thematically around five key issues, Lacan's entire work, is taken into account using theoretical... (more)
Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature
The French theorist Jacques Lacan has always been called a "literary" theoretician. This is a study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the... (more)
Desiring whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race
Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Lacan's theories of the subject and sexual difference, Seshadri-Crooks explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual... (more)
The sense and non-sense of revolt: The powers and limits of psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through... (more)