Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Desire and its Interpretation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VI
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)
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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 34: Paradigms of Jouissance
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)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 7: Get Real
In our Post-Truth era, reality is under attack. The contemporary moment is disoriented by fake new, chatbots, conspiracy theories and a digital flood of leaks, lies and revelations. On hold with... (more)
Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Sympton
Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books,... (more)
Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'
Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading... (more)
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan's formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences. Are there two different... (more)
Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire
This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object... (more)
Anxiety Between Desire and the Body: What Lacan Says in Seminar X
This book provides a unique analysis of Lacan's conception of anxiety as presented in one of his most fascinating seminars, Seminar X. The seminar took place in the lead up to Lacan's infamous... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 6: URGENT!
For its 6th issue, The Lacanian Review (TLR) tasks the signifier, Urgent!, to orient the work of the New Lacanian School (NLS) in examining the urgent cases that occupy our clinic. Tracing the edge... (more)
Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'
The Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading... (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)
The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome
The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Genevieve Morel explores whether it is... (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 4: Family Dramas, Family Traumas
The 4th issue of The Lacanian Review is about Family Dramas, Family Traumas: a theme of the utmost importance for our present.
Family! This is where it all starts for everyone: the place of... (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 2: Sex All Over the Place: Hurly-Burly: Journal of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis
Contents:
EDITORIAL
Véronique Voruz, Sex All Over The Place: “Fuck!”
THEMATIC SECTION: SEX ALL OVER THE PLACE
Jacques-Alain Miller, Truth is Coupled with Meaning
THE DIALOGUE
Jack... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VI: Desire and its Interpretation
From unedited French manuscripts
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in... (more)
Lacan Reading Joyce
This book discusses Jacques Lacan's contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler's influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 32: Lacanian Politics and the Impasses of Democracy Today
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)
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)
Jacques Lacan: Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 8: Nightmare
The Lacanian Review (TLR) takes Lacan’s proposition that we wake up in order to continue dreaming, with eyes wide open. What wakes us up? The Nightmare.
With new translations of Jacques Lacan... (more)
From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real
This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the... (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 5: Delights of the Ego
Amazing! Freud’s good old Ego has become the star of the net: a symptom of our times, as Lacan anticipated. Ego as symptom, delights of the ego, ego at the end of analysis… with the compass of... (more)
Making Sense
Like Homer’s Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious... (more)
Humanisation?: Psychoanalysis, Symbolisation, and the Body of the Unconscious
Unquenched desire, the dividing up of the drives, repetition, and symptom are the keywords concerning the effects on the body of the unconscious as deciphered by Freud. Harmony is not on the agenda,... (more)
Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference
Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps... (more)