Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
How to Read Lacan
"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire." - Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical... (more)
Lacan's Medievalism
One of the foundational premises of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical project was that the history of philosophy concealed the history of desire, and one of the goals of his work was to show how... (more)
The Letter 34: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2005
Calum Neill: An idiotic act: On the non-example of Antigone; Helena Texier: Antigone goes beyond-the-beyond: From the my lady of the ideal to the malady of the Ideal; Kazushige Shingu: Freud, Lacan... (more)
The Letter 33: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2005
Cormac Gallagher: Re-Englishing Encore; Pauline O'Callaghan: Courtly love to Courtney Love: Still no such thing as a sexual relationship?; Patricia McCarthy: A commentary on Lacan's hainamoration and... (more)
The Letter 28 & 29 (Double Issue): Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2003 - Autumn 2003
Issue 28, Summer 2003 Contents: Veroniek Knockaert, Gertrudis Van De Vijver and Filip Geerardyn: The intergenerational transmission of the holocaust trauma: Thelegacy of an impossible memory; Rob... (more)
Lacan: The Silent Partners
It is well known that Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art, past and present. Yet what if there is another frame of reference, rarely or never mentioned... (more)
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. (more)
The Matrixial Borderspace
A groundbreaking intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared... (more)
Transcribing Lacan's Seminars - Memoirs of a Disgruntled Keybasher Turned Psychoanalyst
The author began her working career as a freelance conference steno-typist, and it was in this capacity that she was Jacques Lacan's steno-typist ("keybasher") from 1967 to 1979. It was only after... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... (more)
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
W hy is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and... (more)
Interrogating the Real
Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring,... (more)
Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Hardback)
Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, yet it is widely misunderstood and abused. Here, Serge Leclaire offers a lucid... (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)
Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of... (more)
The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative anlyses of political power and authority,... (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)
Jacques Lacan: Critical Thinker
This volume provides an excellent introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, covering all of Lacan's major concepts such as the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real. (more)
The Feminine No!: Psychoanalysis and the New Canon
Attempts to understand recent changes in the canon of American literature through the aid of psychoanalytic theory.
The Feminine "No!" sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates... (more)
Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences
The title by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of an inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and... (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)
Zizek: A Critical Introduction
Hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times, Zizek's work is a powerful combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy. His writings to date are presented and... (more)
Conversations with Zizek
This title offers a series of conversations which illustrate the originality of Slavoj Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism,... (more)
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacans often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this... (more)
Art: Sublimation or Symptom
Each of the contributors addresses the theoretical questions by pursuing a definite artistic problem, including a close look at the relation between the image and the object in Hitchcock's Vertigo,... (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)
Ecrits: A Selection
Jacques Lacan has had a major influence on contemporary discourse. This translation of selected writings from his famous work offers access to nine of his most significant contributions to... (more)
The Portable Kristeva
Julia Kristeva is a linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. This text provides a representative selection of her writings since the mid 1970s. (more)