Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Childhood Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and... (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)
Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops us from Seeing
Taking the intriguing story of the Mona Lisa's two year disappearance as his starting point, Darian Leader explores the psychology of looking at visual art. This is a book about why we look at art... (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)
Opera's Second Death
This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a... (more)
The Deleuze connections:
A study of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this book isolates the logic at the heart of his theories to reveal its implications for social, cultural and artistic theory. Through clarifying the aim... (more)
A Compendium of Lacanian Terms
This title aims to give a clear, helpful exposition on some 40 key terms in Lacanian thought. Each entry outlines the idea, locating it within Lacanian discourse, and the evolution of the term within... (more)
Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide
Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian... (more)
A queer chivalry: The homoerotic asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian... (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)
Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature
The French theorist Jacques Lacan has always been called a "literary" theoretician. This is a study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the... (more)
Desiring whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race
Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Lacan's theories of the subject and sexual difference, Seshadri-Crooks explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual... (more)
Speaking desires can be dangerous: The poetics of the subconscious
A study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts. Elizabeth Wright addresses the sharp division that has been assumed between the clinical and the aesthetic and sets out to show in detail how... (more)
The sense and non-sense of revolt: The powers and limits of psychoanalysis
Linguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist Julia Kristeva explores one aspect of 20th-century culture - rebellion - in this text. She illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through... (more)
Lacan and the Matter of Origins:
This work traces the development of Lacan's thinking about the role of the mother in psychical formation. It demonstrates that the mother occupies a crucial position in the Lacanian project, widely... (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)
Lacan and the Political
The work of Jacques Lacan is second only to that of Freud in its impact on psychoanalysis. The author examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality... (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)
Critical Essays on Jacques Lacan
A volume which includes newly commissioned material on the theory of language and knowledge elaborated by Lacan in his seminars between 1953-1980. The topics covered range from why Lacan was first... (more)
Resistances of Psychoanalysis:
Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued and assimilated in the three essays that make up this stimulating book. He... (more)
Learning desire: Perspectives on pedagogy, culture and the unsaid
This text explores the many ways in which desire intersects with knowledge, recognition, fantasy and embodiment, and what this entails for teachers of children. 288 pages.
Family values: Reading between the lines
This text offers an analysis of conceptions of woman and man, maternity and paternity, nature and culture, and subjectivity and ethics. It calls into question the traditional image of the... (more)
Cogito and the Unconscious
The Cartesian cogito - the principle articulated by Descartes that 'I think, therefore I am' - is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is... (more)
Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan
Provides numerous theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments. For Nasio it is the unconscious,... (more)
Hitchcock's Bi-Textuality: Lacan, Feminisms, and Queer Theory:
This book combines three elements: an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics, a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity, and close readings of Hitchcock's films. Using the work of... (more)