Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
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 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)
Obsessional Neurosis: Lacanian Perspectives
Despite the important place it occupies in both Freudian and Lacanian nosology, obsessional neurosis has received far less attention than its erstwhile companion hysteria. This volume of essays aims... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Lacanian Ink 51: The Political
Contents
JA……………………………..To resume again…
Pierre Rey…………………….The Case of Pierre Rey
Jacques-Alain Miller…………..Fulgarance
Jacques-Alain Miller…………..Heresy and Orthodoxy
Eric... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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 Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VI: Desire and its Interpretation
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54
Includes discussion of the role of the imaginary, resistance, the ideal ego and ego ideal, and the function of speech in psychoanalysis.
Life With Lacan
In this short book, Catherine Millot offers a richly evocative reflection on her life as analysand and lover of the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud. Dwelling on their time together in Paris and in... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
Drawing from the author's clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender... (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 Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book V
'When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who... (more)
Faces of the Freudian 'I': The Structure of the Ego in Psychoanalysis
In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud. This is done in close readings of central works,... (more)
Lacan's Clinical Technique: Lack(a)nian Analysis
How do psychoanalysts act during analysis? When does treatment start? How long does a session or treatment last? How much does it cost? What does analytical interpretation entail? What is the final... (more)
The Lacan Tradition
The Lacanian tradition is unique among psychoanalytic schools in its influence upon academic fields such as literature, philosophy, cultural and critical studies. This book aims to make Lacan’s ideas... (more)
Love in a Time of Loneliness
Noted Belgian psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe shows us what it is about sex that both keeps us moving and inhibits us at the same time. The first essay, “The Impossible Couple”, is both a humorous and... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Lacan on Psychosis: From Theory to Praxis
This is the first book of its kind that attempts to distill Lacan's views on psychosis for both a specialized and non-specialized audience. An attempt is made to present Lacan's unorganized theories... (more)