Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
A Lacanian Conception of Populism: Society Does Not Exist
A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible... (more)
What Can We Know About Sex?: A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender
Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the... (more)
The Jouissance Principle: Kant, Sade and Lacan on the Ethical Functioning of the Unconscious
This book examines the concept of jouissance, a Lacanian term that refers to enjoyment experienced in different ways, from the enjoyment taken in an action that is ethically disapproved to the hidden... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice: Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts
In this book, fourteen Lacanian psychoanalysts from Italy and France present how they listen and understand clinical questions, and how they operate in session. More than a theoretical 'introduction... (more)
Demanding the Impossible
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best,... (more)
Lacan in the German-Speaking World
This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection... (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)
Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics
Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.
At first... (more)
JCFAR 26: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Diana Caine - Freud, the Aphasias and What Patients Say
Slavoj Zizek - Abjection, Disavowal and the Masquerade of Power
Clare-Aloyse Murphy - Nothing for Nothing: Lacan, Cybernetics and... (more)
Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy
From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning “to divide or cut.” Therefore, regardless of the various studies applied to defining sex as inscribed by... (more)
Jacques Lacan (Volume I) (RLE: Lacan): An Annotated Bibliography: Volume I
This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and... (more)
Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This book brings together the histories of a number of psychoanalytically-informed hospitals, and provides a synthesis of the theoretical underpinnings in the institutional practice of each. Of... (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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.23: Our Orientation
Jacques-Alain Miller - At the Coliseum
Carole Dewambrechies-La Sagna - The true anorexia of a young girl
Alfredo Zenoni - When the child is the object
Marie-Hélène Blancard - The uncanny... (more)
Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne: Volume 24
The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school, in applying, not a technique, but the Freudian... (more)
Love in a Time of Loneliness
Noted Belgian psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe shows us what it is about sex that both keeps us moving and inhibits us at the same time. The first essay, “The Impossible Couple”, is both a humorous and... (more)
Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes
In "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a death... (more)
Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis and Modernity
This is the first systematic overview of Julia Kristeva's vision and work in relation to philosophical modernity. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of her thought on... (more)
Lacan and Science
The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering.... (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis
This work examines Lacan and his ideas and shows how they can become more accessible. Structured thematically around five key issues, Lacan's entire work, is taken into account using theoretical... (more)
The legend of Freud
Without assuming any previous experience of psychoanalytic theory, this work lays out many of the key concepts of Freud's thought, particularly those by which he constructed a metapsychology. The... (more)
The Zizek Reader
An introduction to Slavoj Zizek, this text is divided into three parts: "Culture", "Woman", and "Philosophy". It provides explications of the extracts in each section and connects these extracts in a... (more)
To Speak is Never Neutral
A major collection of Irigaray's articles on linguistics and psychoanalysis. This book is concerned with abnormal language, the differences between the spoken and written language, and sexual, social... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan III: The Psychoses, 1955-56
Examines the distinction between the neuroses and the psychoses, with particular reference to the case of Daniel Paul Schreber.
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture
A virtuoso reading of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory through the works of popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films.
Returns of the French Freud: Freud, Lacan and Beyond
This study examines the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical... (more)
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
An imaginary dialogue with Nietzche designed to interrogate the philosopher on his views of the feminine. (more)
My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise... (more)
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus... (more)