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)
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
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)
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 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)
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
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)
From unedited French manuscripts
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)
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
From unedited French manuscripts
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
From unedited French manuscripts
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
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)
'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)
'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)
Editorial, Roger Litten
Political
Judith Miller, The Next Stage of PIPOL
Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Ten Axioms
Jean-Daniel Matet, New Relations to the Clinic and to... (more)
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)
192 pages.
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)