The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis lays out an Aristotelian framework to account for the different types of knowing and not-knowing operative in the theory and practice of... (more)
This groundbreaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung-Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime held at Cambridge, England, against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the... (more)
Editorial
Marie-Hélène Brousse & Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, The Discipline of the Double Meaning
Speaking Being Is Waste
Laura Sokolowsky, Psychoanalysis is an... (more)
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies'... (more)
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in... (more)
In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that... (more)
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
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)
Arguably the most prolific and widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj i ek has made indelible interventions into a number of disciplines in the so-called human sciences that have transformed... (more)
A major influence on French intellectuals in the twentieth century, Jacques Lacan has been referred to as 'the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud'. Routledge Library Editions: Lacan offers... (more)
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -... (more)
NETS TO KNOTS: THE ODYSSEY TO A BEYOND OF BARBARISM - Cormac Gallagher; CALLING A SPATE A SPATE: RIVERRUN WRITING IN THE ANNA LIVIA SECTION OF FINNEGAN'S WAKE - Olga Cox Cameron; HOME COMES... (more)
Cormac Gallagher: From Freud's mythology of sexuality to Lacan's formulae of sexuation; Helen Sheehan: Sigmund Freud: the time for understanding; Gerry Sullivan: Freud in the twenty-first century: a... (more)
Cormac Gallagher: Where was Jacques Lacan in 1971-72? Ou Pire and The Knowledge of the Psychoanalysts; Claude-Noële Pickman: Examining a clinic of the not-all; Barry O'Donnell: The Parmenides and the... (more)
Issue 25, Summer 2002 Contents: Charles Melman: Returning to Schreber: 5th December 1994; Paul Verhaeghe: Remarks on the Theory and Treatment of (Pathological) Administrations of Enjoyment; Rik... (more)
The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the... (more)
These essays examine "film noir" in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, attempting to move beyond the views of the early French critics. Topics range from the re-emergence of... (more)
BEYOND LACAN - Patricia Stewart; HOW CAN ONE SPEAK OF A SUBJECT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS? - Gerard Pommier; LA FEMME DONNE A LA JOUISSANCE D'OSER LE MASQUE DE LA REPETITION - Claude-Noele Pickmann;... (more)
THE PLACE AND CONTRIBUTION OF HANDWRITING IN CLINICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS - Erik Porge; 2001 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PSYCHOANALYTIC RESEARCH - Cormac Gallagher; BEYOND THE REBUS PRINCIPLE?... (more)
ANXIETY, TIME AND PSYCHICAL STRUCTURE - Andre Michels; Conference Report 1ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON NEUROSCIENTIFIC AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON EMOTION - Aisling Campbell; JUST SAY NO' TO COGITO... (more)
In this work, the author examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and... (more)