Lacanian Psychoanalysis 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)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 33: The Real and The Social Bond: British Psychiatry and the War
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)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice: Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts
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 37/38: The Other, the One
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, we are all talking about the One. Everyone is talking about the concept of the One.
Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38 joins the conversation, offering an array of... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVIII: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
The highly arcane wisdom produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable... (more)
Treating Autism Today: Lacanian Perspectives
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)
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus... (more)
Reading French Psychoanalysis
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 Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (more)
The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants
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.27: Science and the Real
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)
Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: Including the First English Translation of Position of the Unconscious
Provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either English or French on Lacan's most important seminar, 'The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'. The sixteen contributors... (more)
Lacan in the End Times: In the Name of the Absent Father
This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the... (more)
Studying Lacan’s Seminar VI: Dream, Symptom, and the Collapse of Subjectivity
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)
...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
'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 Lautr amont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)
Using Lacanian Clinical Technique: An Introduction
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 Marks of a Psychoanalysis
Is someone radically different after an analysis? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been questioned about what the psychoanalytic experience can change in someone’s life beyond shedding light on... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVII: Psychoanalysis Upside-Down
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Lacan: A Genealogy
Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan's work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment. Beistegui argues that... (more)
Paradoxes in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This book explores the nature of paradoxes in Lacanian psychoanalysis, how they can be approached in treatment and how they can be resolved.
Building on Freud’s and Lacan’s own work in resolving... (more)
Studies on Hysteria Revisited: Charles Melman on Trauma, Incompatibility, Repression and the Unconscious
Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria.
In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of... (more)
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII
'Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders... (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)