Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
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)
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries
Looks at Lacanian psychoanlaysis in a clinical context and how the ancient mysteries of the phallus, prefigure concepts of the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. (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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 42/43: The Point of Anxiety
Everyone senses anxiety is on the rise today. Compared to even a decade ago, it seems both more acute and more widespread, more intense and more banal, to the point of becoming a feature of everyday... (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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 41: a-Normality
There is an obvious commotion in the field of normality today. For example, the widespread rejection of norms imposed by the Other is reflected in the language of the young, especially on social... (more)
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)
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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 40: Love Event
The latest issue No 40 of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks is devoted to love and revolves around a term Jacques Lacan introduced in 1973 – “Love Event”. The issue includes, for the first time in our... (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)