The book aims to go beyond an providing an introduction to Lacan, and to expose the reader to the rigours of Lacan's thinking. 220 pages. (more)
Written with the American psychological community in mind, The Subject of Lacan provides an accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan. (more)
Uses Lacanian concepts to analyze the inner logic of Freud's thought, and provide a bridge between Lacanian concepts and traditional terminology. 165 pages. (more)
A critical look at the mastery exercised by Freud and Lacan over their followers.
Noted French psychoanalyst Francois Roustang examines both historical psychoanalytic relationships and... (more)
This study examines the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical... (more)
Historian, psychoanalyst, and close member of Lacan's inner circle, Elisabeth Roudinesco tells the convoluted story of Jacques Lacan. From his early clinical practice to his many conflicts with the... (more)
This introductory work provides a source of reference for psychoanalysts in training and in practice, with detailed definitions of over 200 Lacanian terms. Attention is given both to Lacan's use of... (more)
Reprints the full text of Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', followed by Lacan's 'Seminar on the Purloined Letter', along with extensive commentaries and a new translation of Derrida's essay on the tale -... (more)
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body, and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American... (more)
The main text is a transcript of a provocative filmed interview with Lacan. The interviewer, J-A Miller, poses questions often asked by those outside the Lacanian mileau. The second half contains... (more)
This book brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated. It outlines the wider shape of Lacanian discourse, showing its relations to philosophy, science, literature,... (more)
A clear introduction to Lacan's work, showing its roots in linguistics and structural anthropology, and examing the meaning of the 'return to Freud'. (more)
Elaborates upon some of the major themes in 'Speculum' and considers the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts.
Covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis and literature, and analyzing sexual difference. (more)
An imaginary dialogue with Nietzche designed to interrogate the philosopher on his views of the feminine. (more)
A series of short essays on language, power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies. (more)
Selected highlights from Irigaray's works, providing an effective overview of her ideas. (more)
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
Offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian perspective. We see how children pass through the mirror stage, locate themselves in the Imaginary and Symbolic registers, and emerge as... (more)
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Illuminates the power and originality of Lacan's work, analyzing his view of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. (more)
'These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve... The sex-playful... (more)
Argues that Lacan was not an ahistorical poststructuralist and recovers a neglected theory of history in Lacan's work, to develop her own theory of modernity based on social psychosis. (more)
The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan’s interest in literary topics.
Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which... (more)