Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Beyond the psychoanalytic dyad: Developmental semiotics in Freud, Peirce and Lacan
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body, and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American... (more)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (more)
Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment
The main text is a transcript of a provocative filmed interview with Lacan. The interviewer, J-A Miller, poses questions often asked by those outside the Lacanian mileau. The second half contains... (more)
Disseminating Lacan
This book brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated. It outlines the wider shape of Lacanian discourse, showing its relations to philosophy, science, literature,... (more)
Jacques Lacan
A clear introduction to Lacan's work, showing its roots in linguistics and structural anthropology, and examing the meaning of the 'return to Freud'. (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)
This Sex Which is Not One
Elaborates upon some of the major themes in 'Speculum' and considers the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts.
Sexes and Genealogies
Covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis and literature, and analyzing sexual difference. (more)
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
An imaginary dialogue with Nietzche designed to interrogate the philosopher on his views of the feminine. (more)
Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference
A series of short essays on language, power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies. (more)
The Irigaray Reader
Selected highlights from Irigaray's works, providing an effective overview of her ideas. (more)
The emptiness of the image: psychoanalysis and sexual differences
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Genealogies of the Text Literature, psychoanalysis and politics in mo
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading Otherwise
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalyis in Contemporary Culture
Illuminates the power and originality of Lacan's work, analyzing his view of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. (more)
History after Lacan
Argues that Lacan was not an ahistorical poststructuralist and recovers a neglected theory of history in Lacan's work, to develop her own theory of modernity based on social psychosis. (more)
Visual Narrative and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This book analyses narrativity in painting from a Freudian-Lacanian perspective.
Narrativity in painting is prominently discussed through disciplinary laws and lens of art history, art theory,... (more)
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
This book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Guiding readers through many facets of Lacanian theory, Bruce Fink unpacks such central... (more)
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land: Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the... (more)
Reading Foucault Through Lacan: From Hysteric to Analyst
Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities. Yet beneath their distinct projects... (more)
A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis: Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty
This book brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalytic work by Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan, Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, Karl Friston’s free energy principle, Adrian... (more)
Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen
Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion.
James... (more)
Powers of Abjection: Politics and Lacanian Ontology
In this book, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff presents a new ontological understanding of politics through the writings of Julia Kristeva's notion of "abjection" in dialogue with Sigmund Freud's concept of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Governance: Discourse and Decisions, Identities and Futures
Psychoanalysis and Governance makes a cogent argument for the use of psychoanalytic perspectives in the understanding of governance, the process of collective decision-making which maintains and... (more)
New Remarks on the Passage to the Act: Lacan and the Lacanians
New Remarks on the Passage to the Act considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence.
Jean Allouch... (more)
First Writings
Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didn’t invite us to read them retroactively. What can they teach us... (more)