Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
JCFAR 24: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Contents:
SAM PALMER - Editorial
ROBERTO HARARI – What Varies and Deviates a Lacanian Clinical Practice?
SLAVOJ ZIZEK – Events through ISR
DIANA VORONOVSKY – What it Means to Talk in... (more)
The New Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book provides a timely exploration and comparison of key concepts in the theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, two thinkers and clinicians whose influence over the development of... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVII: Psychoanalysis Upside-Down
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
Love of Beginnings
Winner of the Prix Femina and considered a masterpiece of autobiography, this is J. B. Pontalis’ lyrical meditation on his own life. One of France’s preeminent psychoanalysts, he is co-author of the... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60
Includes discussion of the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, and the essence of tragedy.
Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice
This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Divided into four key areas, the book considers clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects... (more)
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus... (more)
A Lacanian Conception of Populism: Society Does Not Exist
A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible... (more)
Lacan and Capitalist Discourse: Neoliberalism and Ideology
Lacan and Capitalist Discourse explores the political and theoretical connections between the Covid-19 Pandemic and Capitalism, unravelling the direct consequences of Lacan's thesis of so-called... (more)
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced... (more)
Jacques Lacan: The Basics
Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century.
Lacan’s ideas are applied in the study of the... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38: The Other, the One
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, we are all talking about the One. Everyone is talking about the concept of the One.
Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38 joins the conversation, offering an array of... (more)
The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants
The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties and intervention with babies and their... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 35: Purloined Letters
Reading Lacan to the letter – a close reading of the late Lacan applied to life, literature, and clinic, and a fascinating analysis of a man who struggled to hold himself together by purloining a... (more)
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan's formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences. Are there two different... (more)
Anxiety Between Desire and the Body: What Lacan Says in Seminar X
This book provides a unique analysis of Lacan's conception of anxiety as presented in one of his most fascinating seminars, Seminar X. The seminar took place in the lead up to Lacan's infamous... (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 6: URGENT!
For its 6th issue, The Lacanian Review (TLR) tasks the signifier, Urgent!, to orient the work of the New Lacanian School (NLS) in examining the urgent cases that occupy our clinic. Tracing the edge... (more)
The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome
The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Genevieve Morel explores whether it is... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 15
Issue 15 (December 2017) of Lacunae has a host of articles on Kant, interpretation, the “selfie," a case of psychosis, the Wolfman, transsexuality and Gender Identity Disorder, plus two book reviews... (more)
Life With Lacan
In this short book, Catherine Millot offers a richly evocative reflection on her life as analysand and lover of the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud. Dwelling on their time together in Paris and in... (more)
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference
Drawing from the author's clinical work with gender-variant patients, Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference argues for a depathologizing of the transgender... (more)
Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book V
'When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who... (more)
Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Issue 13
Contents:
Marlene ffrench Mullen - 1916 Diary Extracts
Marlene ffrench Mullen - The Bubbling Has Not Yet Subsided: An Introduction to the Diaries of Marlene ffrench Mullen and the Rising of the... (more)
Faces of the Freudian 'I': The Structure of the Ego in Psychoanalysis
In this book, Reher-Langberg undertakes a systematic analysis of the notion of the Ego, such as it evolves throughout the writings of Sigmund Freud. This is done in close readings of central works,... (more)
Lacan's Clinical Technique: Lack(a)nian Analysis
How do psychoanalysts act during analysis? When does treatment start? How long does a session or treatment last? How much does it cost? What does analytical interpretation entail? What is the final... (more)
Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book X
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In this new translation of Anxiety, he explores the... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XXIII: Joyce and the Sinthome 1975-1976
From unedited French manuscripts. (more)
Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach
Transsexuality and the Art of Transitioning: A Lacanian Approach presents a startling new way to consider psychoanalytic dilemmas of sexual difference and gender through the meeting of arts and the... (more)
The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory
In this book Jean-Gérard Bursztein presents his reading of psychoanalysis in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud, and explores the transformations of Freud's work by his followers. The author... (more)
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within
The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of... (more)