Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Jacques Derrida:
Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write an account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own, excerpts from his life and thought that resist... (more)
The Letter 4: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 1995
THE OBJECT a - Guy Le Gaufey; THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Helena Texier; IS THE CONCEPT OF THE DEATH DRIVE ESSENTIAL WHEN SPEAKING OF TRAUMA? - Aisling Campbell; THE PURLOINED TONGUE - Claus-Dieter... (more)
The Letter 13: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 1998
LATENT FREUDIAN THOUGHTS TOWARDS A THEORY OF NEUROTIC DEPRESSION Part One The Anxiety-Neurotic Depression - Lieven Jonckheere; LATENT FREUDIAN THOUGHTS TOWARDS A THEORY OF NEUROTIC DEPRESSION Part... (more)
The Letter 5: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Autumn 1995
Lacan 's summary of Seminar XL - Cormac Gallagher; THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS* - Charles Melman; SOME SHORT ODDS ON GAMBLING: A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH* - Rik Loose; SOME REMARKS... (more)
Lacan in contexts
In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan’s work. He shows that key elements of... (more)
The Letter 12: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 1998
'IRELAND, MOTHER IRELAND': AN ESSAY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLISM - Cormac Gallagher; THE HEART OF THE MATTER More Topological Considerations On The Subject - Patricia McCarthy; LACAN ON LAS MENINAS... (more)
Women Analyze Women: In France, England and the United States
A look at the experiences of women analysts from different cultural and theoretical backgrounds.
Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
This collection of some of Louis Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought documents his relationship with Jacques Lacan and presents aspects of his personal and intellectual life. (more)
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmsley, Lacan and Others
Examines the relationships between psychoanalysis and linguistics. (more)
Rhetoric and culture in Lacan
This work sets out to show how the French philosopher Jacques Lacan moves beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of mythos and logos, poetics and philosophy, to conceive of the subject as a... (more)
Lacan, Politics and Aesthetics
In this volume, psychoanalysts, cultural theorists, and literary critics demonstrate the relevance of the unconscious economy to the field of cultural studies, applying psychoanalytic criticism to... (more)
Reading Theory: An Introduction to Lacan, Derrida and Kristeva
A commentary on Lacan's 'Ecrits', Derrida's 'Of Grammatology' and Kristeva's 'Revolution in Poetic language'. (more)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (more)
The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis
As attempts to 'place' psychoanalysis in relation to other fields of knowledge, these essays explore the relations between psychoanalysis and literary theory, psychiatry, history, feminism, marxism,... (more)
The Lost Cause of Rhetoric: The Relation of Rhetoric and Geometry in Aristotle and Lacan
A wide-ranging discussion of how rhetoric is 'erased' in Western culture, and how it can (re)place itself through geometry in the spaces vacated by philosophy. Using Aristotle and Lacan the author... (more)
Jacques Lacan
Presents Lacan's ideas chronologically, beginning with his phenomenological essays on the mirror stage, the influence of structuralism in the fifties, and - finally - his work with graphs and... (more)
Hysterical Psychosis: A Historical Survey
Attempts to answer the question 'is there such a thing as hysterical psychosis', or can there only be 'hysteria with psychotic features'.
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries
Looks at Lacanian psychoanlaysis in a clinical context and how the ancient mysteries of the phallus, prefigure concepts of the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. (more)
Lacan, discourse and social change: a psychoanalytic cultural criticis
Proposes a method of cultural criticism that is based on the principles of psychoanalytic treatment and which aims to alter subjectivity and behaviour, drawing on Lacan's theoretical insights. (more)