Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Against Understanding Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key
Against Understanding, Volume 2 casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians’ expertise and mastery rather than patients’ actual... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.27: Science and the Real
Jacques-Alain Miller - Psychoanalysis, its place among the sciences
Miquel Bassols - There is no science of the real
Eric Laurent - The illusion of scientism, the anguish of scientists
Marco... (more)
Against Understanding Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key
Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar,... (more)
The Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap
The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivity, no matter how weak or uncertain it may be, of... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.24: Subject Supposed to Know
Contents:
Editorial: Natalie Wülfing
Our orientation
Jacques-Alain Miller: Psychoanalysis, the city and communities
Clinical section
Jean-Louis Gault: Chinese Chronicles
1 The... (more)
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique presents very basic psychoanalytic techniques in an easy-to-understand and use manner. This practical - not theoretical - primer of psychoanalytic techniques... (more)
Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement
D.W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men... (more)
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
In this classic work, eight crucial Lacanian ideas are explained through detailed exploration of the theoretical and/or practical context in which Lacan introduced them, the way in which they... (more)
The Dialogues in and of the Group: Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group
This book is intended to be an introductory presentation of some key concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis as applied to the psychoanalytic group. The author describes his own encounter with Lacan and... (more)
Lacan and Addiction: An Anthology
With chapters from Rik Loose, Fabian Naparstek, Patricia Gherovici, Bruce Fink, Thomos Svolos and many others, the anthology is for people interested in the topic of addictions, or in Lacanian... (more)
Reading French Psychoanalysis
How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field? In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society,... (more)
On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must... (more)
Sexual Ambiguities
How does one become a man or a woman? Psychoanalysis shows that this is never an easy task and that each of us tackles it in our own, unique way. In this important and original study, Genevieve Morel... (more)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... (more)
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism... (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII
This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May '68, Seminar XVII marked a turning... (more)
Ecrits: The First Complete English Edition
See catalogue number 25151 for the paperback edition. Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.14: Responses from Psychoanalysis
This special edition of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks is dedicated to the 3rd Congress of the NLS that took place in London in May 2005 featuring a 'Psyforum'. (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIX: ...Ou Pire/...Or Worse 1971-1972
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VIII: Transference
From unedited French manuscripts
The other side of desire: Lacan's theory of the registers
This work makes the techniques of Lacanian analysis accessible to a wide variety of readers by putting his theoretical constructs to work on texts as varied as Plato's "Symposium" and the journals of... (more)
Speaking desires can be dangerous: The poetics of the subconscious
A study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts. Elizabeth Wright addresses the sharp division that has been assumed between the clinical and the aesthetic and sets out to show in detail how... (more)
Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud
A systematic presentation of Lacan's early work, sophisticated analysis of his reversals in perspective in the mid-1960's, and extensive discussion of his diagnostic categories by prominent... (more)
Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: Including the First English Translation of Position of the Unconscious
Provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either English or French on Lacan's most important seminar, 'The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'. The sixteen contributors... (more)
My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise... (more)
Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader's Guide
First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that... (more)
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art brings together reflections on contemporary philosophy inspired by and in dialogue with Lacanian theory.
Rather than focus on the thinkers who... (more)
The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization
The Psychosis of Race offers a unique and detailed account of the psychoanalytic significance of race, and the ongoing impact of racism in contemporary society.
Moving beyond the well-trodden... (more)