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Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud

A systematic presentation of Lacan's early work, sophisticated analysis of his reversals in perspective in the mid-1960's, and extensive discussion of his diagnostic categories by prominent... (more)

On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII

by Jacques Lacan

The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as well as in their dreams and fantasies. It has nothing... (more)

A Lacanian Reading of Anorexia

by Domenico Cosenza

This book presents a Lacanian perspective on the understanding and treatment of anorexia, supported by case material, research and theoretical insight from the author’s 25 years of clinical... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38: The Other, the One

Edited by Bogdan Wolf

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)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 35: Purloined Letters

by Sophie Marret Maleval

Reading Lacan to the letter – a close reading of the late Lacan applied to life, literature, and clinic, and a fascinating analysis of a man who struggled to hold himself together by purloining a... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 32: Lacanian Politics and the Impasses of Democracy Today

Edited by Roger Litten

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)

The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan

by Ellie Ragland

In The Logic of Sexuation, Ellie Ragland offers a detailed account of Jacques Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. (more)

The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment

by Todd McGowan

Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so. (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.31: Brief Encounters

Edited by Roger Litten

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)

Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity

by Calum Neill

Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that... (more)

Against Understanding Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key

by Bruce Fink

Against Understanding, Volume 2 casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians’ expertise and mastery rather than patients’ actual... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.27: Science and the Real

Edited by Natalie Wulfing, Miquel Bassols

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)

The Klein-Lacan Dialogues

Edited by Bernard Burgoyne, Mary Sullivan

This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.23: Our Orientation

Edited by Natalie Wulfing

Jacques-Alain Miller - At the Coliseum

Carole Dewambrechies-La Sagna - The true anorexia of a young girl

Alfredo Zenoni - When the child is the object

Marie-Hélène Blancard - The uncanny... (more)

Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement

Edited by Lewis A. Kirshner

D.W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men... (more)

Lacan and Addiction: An Anthology

Edited by Yael Goldman Baldwin, Kareen R. Malone

With chapters from Rik Loose, Fabian Naparstek, Patricia Gherovici, Bruce Fink, Thomos Svolos and many others, the anthology is for people interested in the topic of addictions, or in Lacanian... (more)

Lacan: A Beginner's Guide

by Lionel Bailly

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)

Passion for the Human Subject: A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers

by Bernard Penot

Each one of us has to be born "inter urinas et faeces", as St. Augustine so strikingly put it. More recently, Freud's 1915 discovery of 'instincts' - that is, 'drives' - and their 'viscitudes' leads... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.14: Responses from Psychoanalysis

by Natalie Wulfing, Bogdan Wolf

This special edition of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks is dedicated to the 3rd Congress of the NLS that took place in London in May 2005 featuring a 'Psyforum'. (more)