This is a print-only limited edition, in a brand new format, of a Jacques Lacan classic: British Psychiatry and the War(1947), published together with Éric Laurent’s incisive commentary, “The Real... (more)
Discusses the Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, the relation of the symbol and the machine, repetition, and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'.
"A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautréamont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)
Includes discussion of the role of the imaginary, resistance, the ideal ego and ego ideal, and the function of speech in psychoanalysis.
Includes discussion of the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, and the essence of tragedy.
An annotated translation of Jacques Lacan's seminar weighing up theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge. The text draws upon the work of such diverse... (more)
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)
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is... (more)