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Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction

Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 36: Formation of the Analyst

Edited by Peggy Papada

How does one become a psychoanalyst in the Lacanian Orientation? A "must read" issue for anyone interested in this important topic. Far from training programmes which after x number of years, lead to... (more)

Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity: Spectre of Madness

by Alireza Taheri

The current rise in new religions and the growing popularity of New Ageism is concomitant with an increasingly anti-philosophical sentiment marking our contemporary situation. More specifically, it... (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)

The Lacanian Review: Issue 9: Still Life?

Edited by Marie-Hélène Brousse, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff

Editorial

Marie-Hélène Brousse & Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, The Discipline of the Double Meaning

Speaking Being Is Waste

Laura Sokolowsky, Psychoanalysis is an... (more)

The Lacanian Review: Issue 8: Nightmare

Edited by Marie-Hélène Brousse, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff

The Lacanian Review (TLR) takes Lacan’s proposition that we wake up in order to continue dreaming, with eyes wide open. What wakes us up? The Nightmare.

With new translations of Jacques Lacan... (more)

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch

by Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens

Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)

Making Sense

by Martin Stanton

Like Homer’s Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious... (more)

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Sympton

by Pierre Bruno

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books,... (more)

The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII

by Jacques Lacan

'Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders... (more)

...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

by Jacques Lacan

'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 Lautr amont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)

Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital

by Jacques Lacan

'I've been talking to brick walls,' says Lacan, meaning: 'Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me.' ... (more)

Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'

Edited by Derek Hook, Calum Neill

Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading... (more)

Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory

Edited by Agnieszka Piotrowska, Ben Tyrer

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns man’s relationship to the question of ‘woman’ but femininity is also a matter of... (more)

From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real

by Esther Rapoport

This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the... (more)

Desire and its Interpretation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VI

by Jacques Lacan

What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is... (more)

Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire

Edited by Carol Owens, Nadezhda Almqvist

This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object... (more)

Anxiety Between Desire and the Body: What Lacan Says in Seminar X

by Bogdan Wolf

This book provides a unique analysis of Lacan's conception of anxiety as presented in one of his most fascinating seminars, Seminar X. The seminar took place in the lead up to Lacan's infamous... (more)

The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome

by Genevieve Morel

The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Genevieve Morel explores whether it is... (more)

Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other

by Liora Stavchansky

Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other explores what topology can contribute to clinical work with children, emphasizing that psychoanalytic listening goes beyond the individuals who... (more)

Knowing Not-Knowing and Jouissance: Levels Symbols and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis

by Raul Moncayo

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and the hierarchical... (more)

Lacan on Psychosis: From Theory to Praxis

Edited by Jon Mills, David L. Downing

This is the first book of its kind that attempts to distill Lacan's views on psychosis for both a specialized and non-specialized audience. An attempt is made to present Lacan's unorganized theories... (more)

Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 15

Edited by Eve Watson

Issue 15 (December 2017) of Lacunae has a host of articles on Kant, interpretation, the “selfie," a case of psychosis, the Wolfman, transsexuality and Gender Identity Disorder, plus two book reviews... (more)

After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century

by Ankhi Mukherjee

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as... (more)

Lacan Reading Joyce

by Colette Soler

This book discusses Jacques Lacan's contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler's influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on... (more)