Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan: Literature, Lituraterre, Litterature
The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan’s interest in literary topics.
Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which... (more)
Lacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence: The Importance of Lacan as Irritant
This book explores the importance of Lacan’s role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than... (more)
What Does It Mean to Make Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy
What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.
Everyone chooses a gender by repressing the... (more)
Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0
A collection of essays and pensées from a noted psychoanalyst and Lacanian thinker.
Inspired by Jacques Lacan's idea in his Seminar VI that "Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to... (more)
My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise... (more)
Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader's Guide
First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that... (more)
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan seeks to understand the human sense of smell and its marks on our subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Accessibly written, the book considers... (more)
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art brings together reflections on contemporary philosophy inspired by and in dialogue with Lacanian theory.
Rather than focus on the thinkers who... (more)
Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack
This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.
The... (more)
Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture to this Collection' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'
Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's... (more)
Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: A Lacanian Perspective
Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his... (more)
Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX: The Torus of Reason
Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX examines the themes presented in Encore, the seminar presented by Lacan between 1972 and 1975.
Raul Moncayo, Barri Belnap, and Greg Farr focus on Lacan’s... (more)
The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization
The Psychosis of Race offers a unique and detailed account of the psychoanalytic significance of race, and the ongoing impact of racism in contemporary society.
Moving beyond the well-trodden... (more)
From an Other to the other, Book XVI
Sollers once wrote that, to him, Claudel was first and foremost the man who wrote, “Paradise is around us at this very moment, all its forests attentive like a great orchestra that invisibly adores... (more)
From Cogito to Covid: Rethinking Lacan's Science and Truth
This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan’s 1965 essay “Science and Truth” to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth. In doing so, it re-considers the... (more)
Lacan, Jouissance, and the Social Sciences: The One and the Many
Explores how aspects of psychoanalysis intersect with elements of social and cultural theory. Builds on the work of Slavoj Zizek regarding Lacan's concept of jouissance. Highly interdisciplinary... (more)
Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater
Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the 20th century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris,... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature: Metaphoric Truth, Imaginary Fiction, Letter Jouissance, and Nomination
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature considers the psychoanalytic applications of three classic works of nineteenth century literature, applying Lacanian concepts throughout. Moncayo... (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 Žižek's guide to surplus... (more)
Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst: Who's your Dora?
Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst presents interviews with Lacanian analysts, exploring their professional development and the effects that their patients have had on them.
Dries... (more)
Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account
Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her... (more)
Studying Lacan's Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII offers a contemporary, critically informed set of analyses of Lacan’s ethics seminar and astute reflections about what Lacan’s ethics offers to the field of... (more)
A Lacanian Conception of Populism: Society Does Not Exist
A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible... (more)
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced... (more)
Jacques Lacan: The Basics
Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
Lacan’s ideas are applied in the study of the... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2nd Revised Edition)
This distinctively interdisciplinary book draws upon psychoanalytic theory to explore how expectations, desires and fears of documentary subjects and filmmakers are engaged, and the ethical issues... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction sees Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot and Uri Hadar provide an original approach to the elaborate and complex world of Jacques Lacan, one of psychoanalysis’s... (more)
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Conversation about Living in Joy
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life – childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering – through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point... (more)
Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory
Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and... (more)
...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX
"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 Lautréamont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)