Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books at Karnac Books

Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 34: Paradigms of Jouissance

by Jacques-Alain Miller

We have compiled a series of three texts selected from Jacques-Alain Miller’s interventions on Lacan’s teaching. This provides reference points to Miller’s trajectory through questions arising from... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 36: Formation of the Analyst

Edited by Peggy Papada

How does one become a psychoanalyst in the Lacanian Orientation? A "must read" issue for anyone interested in this important topic. Far from training programmes which after x number of years, lead to... (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

Studying Lacan’s Seminar VI: Dream, Symptom, and the Collapse of Subjectivity

by Olga Cox Cameron, Carol Owens

The second volume in the Studying Lacan's Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation. A natural companion to Bruce Fink's recent... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 33: The Real and The Social Bond: British Psychiatry and the War

Edited by Jacques Lacan, Eric Laurent

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)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.20: Object a & The Semblant

Edited by Natalie Wulfing

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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice: Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts

by Diego Busiol

In this book, fourteen Lacanian psychoanalysts from Italy and France present how they listen and understand clinical questions, and how they operate in session. More than a theoretical 'introduction... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 32: Lacanian Politics and the Impasses of Democracy Today

Edited by Roger Litten

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)

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners

by Bruce Fink

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique presents very basic psychoanalytic techniques in an easy-to-understand and use manner. This practical - not theoretical - primer of psychoanalytic techniques... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.22: Lacanian Practice

Edited by Natalie Wulfing

Jacques-Alain Miller - Transference, Repetition and Sexual Real

Dominique Laurent - What is Called Sex

Sonia Chiriaco - The Joke

Jacques-Alain Miller - Marginalia to Constructions in... (more)

Reading French Psychoanalysis

Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Alain Gibeault

How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field? In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society,... (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.28: The Child

Edited by Natalie Wulfing, Eric Zuliani

Contents

EDITORIAL . Natalie Wulfing

Éric Zuliani - Special Issue Editorial

ORIENTATION

Jacques-Alain Miller . The Child and the Object

THE LACANIAN CLINIC

Jean-Robert Rabanel . The... (more)

Using Lacanian Clinical Technique: An Introduction

by Philip Hill

This book is intended to help those who work, or wish to work, privately, in multidisciplinary teams, general practices and schools and addresses two different sorts of reader: the complete beginner,... (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVIII: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.27: Science and the Real

Edited by Natalie Wulfing, Miquel Bassols

Jacques-Alain Miller - Psychoanalysis, its place among the sciences

Miquel Bassols - There is no science of the real

Eric Laurent - The illusion of scientism, the anguish of scientists

Marco... (more)

Lacan: A Beginner's Guide

by Lionel Bailly

Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that... (more)

The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants

by Marie Couvert

The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties and intervention with babies and their... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 35: Purloined Letters

by Sophie Marret Maleval

Reading Lacan to the letter – a close reading of the late Lacan applied to life, literature, and clinic, and a fascinating analysis of a man who struggled to hold himself together by purloining a... (more)

Treating Autism Today: Lacanian Perspectives

Edited by Laura Tarsia, Kristina Valendinova

Drawing together an international range of psychoanalytic practitioners, this collection provides a critique of mainstream models of autism, looking at the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of... (more)