Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Psychology After the Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan
What is the role of 'representation' in Freud's concept of the unconscious? What are the implications for our understanding of language in the clinic? How does Lacan radicalise this 'unconscious' in... (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Lacanian Structures and Language in Psychoanalysis
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, and which operate differently at different logical moments or stages of... (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)
Pink Herrings: Fantasy, Object Choice, and Sexuation
Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud’s cases via Lacan’s account of sexuation. Specifi cally, the book outlines a theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a... (more)
Lacan and Religion
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is one of the most influential intellectuals of the past century. His work is invoked by philosophers, film critics and feminist theorists, but religious... (more)
The Zizek Dictionary
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion - ... (more)
Jacques Lacan and Cinema: Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation
Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the... (more)
The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers: The Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world. The emphasis on description goes hand in hand with a rejection of... (more)
Lacan: In Spite of Everything
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over,... (more)
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue
Prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's death, this exchange between two prominent intellectuals is rich with surprising insights.
Alain Badiou shares... (more)
The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis: The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism
It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the... (more)
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within
The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of... (more)
JCFAR 24: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Contents:
SAM PALMER - Editorial
ROBERTO HARARI – What Varies and Deviates a Lacanian Clinical Practice?
SLAVOJ ZIZEK – Events through ISR
DIANA VORONOVSKY – What it Means to Talk in... (more)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in Mothers' Hands
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in Mothers' Hands is a playful exploration of how people's desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It... (more)
A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
In A Psychoanalyst on the Couch we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight... (more)
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the... (more)
An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing
Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Some works are either interactive or entirely autonomous, and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be... (more)
Introductory Lectures on Lacan
Lacan developed his theory and practice of psychoanalysis on the basis of Freud’s original work. In his “return to Freud” he not only elaborated and revised some of Freud’s innovative ideas, but... (more)
Hysteria Today
Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something... (more)
Lost in Cognition: Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to... (more)
Psychoanalysis is An Antiphilosophy
Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death – as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters.
Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the... (more)
Against Understanding Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key
Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar,... (more)
Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
A study of Lacan’s engagement with the Western philosophical traditions of ethical and political thought in his seventh seminar and later work.
With its privileging of the unconscious, Jacques... (more)
The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held... (more)
The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference
Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Both Freud and Lacan defined... (more)
On the Names-of-the-Father
'What astonishing success The Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and... (more)
The Triumph of Religion
"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the... (more)
Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis
Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of... (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)
Surplus: Spinoza Lacan
This book maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx. (more)