Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
A Lacanian Reading of Anorexia
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 No. 35: Purloined Letters
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
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
In The Logic of Sexuation, Ellie Ragland offers a detailed account of Jacques Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.
The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so. (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.31: Brief Encounters
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)
Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
If psychoanalysis will survive in the twenty-first century, this book’s wager is that it will be Lacanian psychoanalysis. Today, the survival of psychoanalysis is in question. Even Jacques Lacan... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.30
Roger Litten - Editorial
Jacques-Alain Miller - The Barcelona Seminar on the Paths of Symptom Formation
Éric Laurent - The Pass and the Guarantee in the School
Marie-Hélène Brousse - Sexual... (more)
Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity
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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.27: Science and the Real
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
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)
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.23: Our Orientation
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)
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners
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)
Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement
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
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
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)
Reading French Psychoanalysis
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)
Passion for the Human Subject: A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers
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
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)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XX: Encore
From unedited French manuscripts. (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVII: Psychoanalysis Upside-Down
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan X: Anxiety
From unedited French manuscripts
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
Discusses the Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, the relation of the symbol and the machine, repetition, and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'.
The Birth of the Other
Offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian perspective. We see how children pass through the mirror stage, locate themselves in the Imaginary and Symbolic registers, and emerge as... (more)
In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism
'These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve... The sex-playful... (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)
Lacanian Perspectives on Jealousy
A great effort has been made in contemporary Western culture to move beyond jealousy in our private lives - we have renegotiated old prohibitions, reorganising our sex lives, relationships, and... (more)