Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
Drawing from the author's clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender... (more)
Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'the Freudian Thing'
This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan's most important texts, wherein he explains... (more)
The Law of Desire: On Lacan's 'Kant with Sade'
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan's Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed... (more)
Peversion Now!
This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of 'perversion',... (more)
There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan
Published in 1973, L'Etourdit was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations,... (more)
Lacanian Treatment: Psychoanalysis for Clinicians
Secret wishes, forbidden pleasures, and painful memories hide below the false bottom of consciousness. How do we decipher the desire and pleasure located between the words spoken in psychotherapeutic... (more)
Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan
It is unlikely that Jacques Lacan and Alice Munro were ever aware of each other's work. Yet, because of Munro's intuitive grasp of the complexities of human subjectivity and her ability to articulate... (more)
Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction
The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth and twenty-first century thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his... (more)
Lacanian Ink 49: Parlêtre
Contents:
Josefina Ayerza - To Resume Again…
Pierre Ray - The Case of Pierre Ray As Told By Pierre Ray
Antonio di Ciaccia - The Young Man's Strings
Jacques-Alain Miller, di Ciaccia et al -... (more)
Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book V
'When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 13
Contents:
Marlene ffrench Mullen - 1916 Diary Extracts
Marlene ffrench Mullen - The Bubbling Has Not Yet Subsided: An Introduction to the Diaries of Marlene ffrench Mullen and the Rising of the... (more)
The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism
The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post '68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master,... (more)
Faces of the Freudian 'I': The Structure of the Ego in Psychoanalysis
In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud. This is done in close readings of central works,... (more)
The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is... (more)
The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan
In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom... (more)
The Marks of a Psychoanalysis
Is someone radically different after an analysis? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been questioned about what the psychoanalytic experience can change in someone’s life beyond shedding light on... (more)
Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy
This collection of essays explores laughter, humor, and the comic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edited by two leading practicing psychoanalysts and with original contributions from Lacanian... (more)
Lacanian Ink 48: Humpty Dumpty
Josefina Ayerza - To Resume Again…
A Family Paranoia - The Conversation
Carol Dewambrechies-La Sagna - At the Author’s Expense
Jacques-Alain Miller - When the Semblants... (more)
Lacan's Clinical Technique: Lack(a)nian Analysis
How do psychoanalysts act during analysis? When does treatment start? How long does a session or treatment last? How much does it cost? What does analytical interpretation entail? What is the final... (more)
JCFAR 27: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Contributors:
Renata Salecl - War Trauma Twenty Years After - From Bosnia to St Louis
Zeljka Matijasevic - Human vs Mechanical in Lacan's 'Borderland': Fetishistic Strategies
Anouchka Grose... (more)
Joyce and Lacan: Reading, Writing and Psychoanalysis
What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis,... (more)
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XXIII
"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)
Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse... (more)
Lacan's Return to Antiquity: Between Nature and the Gods
Lacan's Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan's work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: 'what are Ancient Greece and... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 12
Easter Rising 1916 Centenary issue.
Contents:
Editorial - Medb Ruane
from Geomantic - Paula Meehan
Some Words on Commemorating 1916 - Mary E. Daly
From Vivid Faces to Frozen Masks?... (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)
The Subject of Liberation: Zizek, Politics, Psychoanalysis
The book shares Zizek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)
Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book X
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In this new translation of Anxiety, he explores the... (more)
Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference
Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps... (more)