Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
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)
On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge - Encore 1972-1973: Seminar XX
An annotated translation of Jacques Lacan's seminar weighing up theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge. The text draws upon the work of such diverse... (more)
A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. Each of the... (more)
The Abyss of Freedom
This book contains the first English version of the second draft (1813) of Schelling's 'Die Weltalter' ('Ages of the World'). Zizek provides a commentary on this work, focusing on the notion that... (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)
Possessions
This sequal to the celebrated novel 'The Old Man and the Wolves' returns to the corrupt, colourful seaside resort of Santa Varvara, where the boundaries between east and west, civilization and... (more)
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
This text presents the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce the "death of the subject", the book explores what it... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure and Society
Now available in paperback, this collection introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity and society, and how language both interacts with and... (more)
Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan
Examines the transformation and translation of Freud's theories - in particular, the differences and interconnections between Freud's and Lacan's work.
Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction
An accesible guide to Lacanian thought from a feminist perspective.
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.
Passion in theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan
Freud and Lacan argued that the mind's connection to the body is marked by the passion of the knowing subject. This text explores what such a characterization means, and how it provides a key to many... (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.
Ecrits: A Selection
New edition in the 'Routledge Classics' series. Includes papers on the mirror phase, the function of language, the role of the phallus, and many other key Lacanian concepts. 376 pages. (more)
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.
Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock: Second Edition
A compilation of papers applying the insights of Lacan to Hitchcock's movies and vice versa. Hitchcock gets onto the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors... (more)
A Skin for Thought: Interviews with Gilbert Tarrab on Psychology and Psychoanalysis
A French analyst discusses the interface between psychoanalysis and psychology. A Skin for Thought takes the form of ten transcribed discussions between Didier Anzieu and Gilbert Tarrab, recorded in... (more)
Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud: The Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary
The book aims to go beyond an providing an introduction to Lacan, and to expose the reader to the rigours of Lacan's thinking. 220 pages. (more)
The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian reader for psychologists
Written with the American psychological community in mind, The Subject of Lacan provides an accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan. (more)