Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
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)
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)
Surplus: Spinoza Lacan
This book maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx. (more)
The Surface Effect: The Screen of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis
Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the "mother of all media"? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real? In The Surface Effect Andre Nusselder examines the... (more)
Concept and Form: Interviews and Essays on Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 2
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten... (more)
Concept and Form: Selections from Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 1
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten... (more)
The Heart of Man's Destiny: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought
Can Luther's writings inform us on the fundamental questions of Freudian psychoanalysis? Does an intellectual filiation between early Reformation thought and psychoanalysis exist? Does Lacanian... (more)
Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject
Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not the fact of habitually engaging in specific abnormal or transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural... (more)
Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real'
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap
The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivity, no matter how weak or uncertain it may be, of... (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)
Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis
First English translation of Nasio’s groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France’s leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that the... (more)