Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud
Uses Lacanian concepts to analyze the inner logic of Freud's thought, and provide a bridge between Lacanian concepts and traditional terminology. 165 pages. (more)
Dire Mastery: Discipleship from Freud to Lacan
A critical look at the mastery exercised by Freud and Lacan over their followers.
Noted French psychoanalyst Francois Roustang examines both historical psychoanalytic relationships and... (more)
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)
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)
An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This introductory work provides a source of reference for psychoanalysts in training and in practice, with detailed definitions of over 200 Lacanian terms. Attention is given both to Lacan's use of... (more)
The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading
Reprints the full text of Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', followed by Lacan's 'Seminar on the Purloined Letter', along with extensive commentaries and a new translation of Derrida's essay on the tale -... (more)
Beyond the psychoanalytic dyad: Developmental semiotics in Freud, Peirce and Lacan
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body, and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American... (more)
Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment
The main text is a transcript of a provocative filmed interview with Lacan. The interviewer, J-A Miller, poses questions often asked by those outside the Lacanian mileau. The second half contains... (more)
Disseminating Lacan
This book brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated. It outlines the wider shape of Lacanian discourse, showing its relations to philosophy, science, literature,... (more)
Jacques Lacan
A clear introduction to Lacan's work, showing its roots in linguistics and structural anthropology, and examing the meaning of the 'return to Freud'. (more)
This Sex Which is Not One
Elaborates upon some of the major themes in 'Speculum' and considers the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts.
Sexes and Genealogies
Covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis and literature, and analyzing sexual difference. (more)
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
An imaginary dialogue with Nietzche designed to interrogate the philosopher on his views of the feminine. (more)
Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference
A series of short essays on language, power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies. (more)
The Irigaray Reader
Selected highlights from Irigaray's works, providing an effective overview of her ideas. (more)
The emptiness of the image: psychoanalysis and sexual differences
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Genealogies of the Text Literature, psychoanalysis and politics in mo
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (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)
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading Otherwise
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalyis in Contemporary Culture
Illuminates the power and originality of Lacan's work, analyzing his view of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. (more)
In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism
'These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve... The sex-playful... (more)
History after Lacan
Argues that Lacan was not an ahistorical poststructuralist and recovers a neglected theory of history in Lacan's work, to develop her own theory of modernity based on social psychosis. (more)
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan seeks to understand the human sense of smell and its marks on our subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Accessibly written, the book considers... (more)
Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack
This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.
The... (more)
Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX: The Torus of Reason
Exploring Lacan’s Encore Seminar XX examines the themes presented in Encore, the seminar presented by Lacan between 1972 and 1975.
Raul Moncayo, Barri Belnap, and Greg Farr focus on Lacan’s... (more)
From Cogito to Covid: Rethinking Lacan's Science and Truth
This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan’s 1965 essay “Science and Truth” to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth. In doing so, it re-considers the... (more)