Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse... (more)
Lacan's Return to Antiquity: Between Nature and the Gods
Lacan's Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan's work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: 'what are Ancient Greece and... (more)
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds: Schizophrenia in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds examines the history, conceptualisation, and treatment of the psychotic sub-type of schizophrenia, as this is advocated by psychoanalysis of Lacanian... (more)
Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
If psychoanalysis will survive in the twenty-first century, this book’s wager is that it will be Lacanian psychoanalysis. Today, the survival of psychoanalysis is in question. Even Jacques Lacan... (more)
The Triumph of Religion
'I am the product of priests', Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the... (more)
On the Names-of-the-Father
What astonishing success The Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and... (more)
Obsessional Neurosis: Lacanian Perspectives
Despite the important place it occupies in both Freudian and Lacanian nosology, obsessional neurosis has received far less attention than its erstwhile companion hysteria. This volume of essays aims... (more)
The Subject of Liberation: Zizek, Politics, Psychoanalysis
The book shares Zizek's central problem of how to revitalize the radical political left through theory. It initially follows the argument developed in The Ticklish Subject that contemporary leftist... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.30
Roger Litten - Editorial
Jacques-Alain Miller - The Barcelona Seminar on the Paths of Symptom Formation
Éric Laurent - The Pass and the Guarantee in the School
Marie-Hélène Brousse - Sexual... (more)
Lalangue, Sinthome, Jouissance, and Nomination: A Reading Companion and Commentary on Lacan's Seminar XXIII on the Sinthome
This reading companion and commentary on Lacan Seminar XXIII provides detailed analyses of Lacan’s seminar while maintaining an overall continuity and consistency. This book does not purport to... (more)
Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers’ films are rife with figures of absence. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never took place, and pays the ransom to a gang of... (more)
Between Levinas and Lacan: Self, Other, Ethics
Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.
At first... (more)
Psychoanalytic Film Theory and the Rules of the Game
The Film Theory in Practice Series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of... (more)
Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism
Bringing together Jacques Lacan and Friedrich Nietzsche, Tim Themi focuses on their conceptions of ethics and on their accounts of the history of ethical thinking in the Western tradition. Nietzsche... (more)
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism.... (more)
The Weary Sons of Freud
In this passionately written and controversial book, first published in 1978, Catherine Clement, Communist, feminist and analysand, asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and... (more)
JCFAR 26: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Diana Caine - Freud, the Aphasias and What Patients Say
Slavoj Zizek - Abjection, Disavowal and the Masquerade of Power
Clare-Aloyse Murphy - Nothing for Nothing: Lacan, Cybernetics and... (more)
From Anxiety to Zoolander: Notes on Psychoanalysis
From Anxiety to Zoolander is a collection of writings on psychoanalytic themes. Each text was originally delivered as a talk, and the book aims to retain the informality and directness of the spoken... (more)
Confessions from the Couch: Psychoanalytical Notions Illustrated with Extracts from Sessions
The unconscious? The Oedipus complex? The castration complex? Neurosis? The objet a? What are they? And what does one say to an analyst? What happens during an analysis?
For those asking... (more)
Jacques Lacan: Between Psychoanalysis and Politics
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized a range of fields. The volume aims to introduce Lacan's... (more)
Lacanian Affects: The Function of Affect in Lacan's Work
Affect is a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis, but there has long been a misperception that Lacan neglected affect in his writings. We encounter affect at the beginning of any analysis in the form... (more)
Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language
Psychosis, an invasion of mind and body from without, creates an enigma about what is happening and thrusts the individual into radical isolation. What are the subjective details of such experiences?... (more)
Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy
From its etymological roots, sex is related to a scission, Latin for sectus, secare, meaning “to divide or cut.” Therefore, regardless of the various studies applied to defining sex as inscribed by... (more)
JCFAR 25: Child Analysis: Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
Child Analysis: New Perspectives - Danuza Machado
Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Two Month Old Baby with an Autistic Brother, Showing Warning Signs of a Similar Development - Marie-Christine... (more)
Let's Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes
Let’s Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes is a collection of original Lacanian case studies of young people today as they struggle with their own modern existential... (more)
Interpreting Lacan
To assimilate a writer as allusive as Lacan is to enter into an entire culture. However firm their grounding in Freud, readers of Lacan must learn to rethink psychoanalysis with a speculative... (more)
More Lacanian Coordinates: On Love, Psychoanalytic Clinic, and the Ends of Analysis
Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and it is a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan’s teaching, from the... (more)
Lacanian Coordinates: From the Logic of the Signifier to the Paradoxes of Guilt and Desire
Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan’s teaching, from the logic of... (more)
The Subject of Psychosis: a Lacanian Perspective
The entire legacy of Jacques Lacan is permeated by his deep interest in psychosis and psychotic phenomena. This book examines Lacan's contribution to our understanding of psychosis, proposing that... (more)