Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction sees Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot and Uri Hadar provide an original approach to the elaborate and complex world of Jacques Lacan, one of psychoanalysis’s... (more)
Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s)
Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for... (more)
Studies on Hysteria Revisited: Charles Melman on Trauma, Incompatibility, Repression and the Unconscious
Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria.
In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of... (more)
Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire
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)
Knowing Not-Knowing and Jouissance: Levels Symbols and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis
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)
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)
What Is Sex?
Consider sublimation - conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from... (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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: 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)
Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed... (more)
Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed... (more)
Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject (Hardback)
See catalogue number 28060 for the paperback edition. Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency. In "Signifiers and Acts" Ed Pluth... (more)
Sexual Ambiguities
How does one become a man or a woman? Psychoanalysis shows that this is never an easy task and that each of us tackles it in our own, unique way. In this important and original study, Genevieve Morel... (more)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... (more)
A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
Translated by Marie-Claude Hays, a thesis drawn from clinical experience where the central concern, of the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents, is linked to other... (more)
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's... (more)
Possessions: A Novel
This sequel to Julia Kristeva’s celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54
Includes discussion of the role of the imaginary, resistance, the ideal ego and ego ideal, and the function of speech in psychoanalysis.
Jacques Lacan: Outline of a Life, History of a System of Thought
Historian, psychoanalyst, and close member of Lacan's inner circle, Elisabeth Roudinesco tells the convoluted story of Jacques Lacan. From his early clinical practice to his many conflicts with the... (more)
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)
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land: Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the... (more)
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)