Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Jacques Lacan (Volume I) (RLE: Lacan): An Annotated Bibliography: Volume I
This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and... (more)
Lacan and the Subject of Language (RLE: Lacan)
Originally published in 1991, this volume tackles the diverse teachings of the great psychoanalyst and theoretician. Written by some of the leading American and European Lacanian scholars and... (more)
Figuring Lacan (RLE: Lacan): Criticism and the Unconscious
It could be argued that the influence of Lacan on modern literary studies has been greater than anyone's. Lacan has historicised the universal or mythic perceptions of Freud, and thus lent a new... (more)
Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan): Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud
The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan's work is... (more)
Treating People with Psychosis in Institutions: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
This book brings together the histories of a number of psychoanalytically-informed hospitals, and provides a synthesis of the theoretical underpinnings in the institutional practice of each. Of... (more)
Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity
Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that... (more)
Since Lacan: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne: Volume 25
Since Lacan is the latest volume of the Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, School of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, founded in 1977. As such it is comprised of original papers by analysts and... (more)
Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real
Stop Making Sense offers an original and compelling theory of music “from the perspective of the real” as this term is understood according to the Lacanian orientation in psychoanalysis. Specific... (more)
Psychology After Lacan: Connecting the Clinic and Research
Why is Lacanian psychoanalysis now appearing in psychology? What innovative account does it offer of the human subject? What are the implications for psychology as a separate discipline? This volujme... (more)
Psychology After the Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan
What is the role of 'representation' in Freud's concept of the unconscious? What are the implications for our understanding of language in the clinic? How does Lacan radicalise this 'unconscious' in... (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Lacanian Structures and Language in Psychoanalysis
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, and which operate differently at different logical moments or stages of... (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)
Pink Herrings: Fantasy, Object Choice, and Sexuation
Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud’s cases via Lacan’s account of sexuation. Specifi cally, the book outlines a theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a... (more)
Lacan and Religion
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is one of the most influential intellectuals of the past century. His work is invoked by philosophers, film critics and feminist theorists, but religious... (more)
The Zizek Dictionary
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion - ... (more)
Jacques Lacan and Cinema: Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation
Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the... (more)
The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers: The Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Lacan critiqued imaginary intuition for confusing direct perception with unconscious pre-conceptions about people and the world. The emphasis on description goes hand in hand with a rejection of... (more)
Lacan: In Spite of Everything
Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over,... (more)
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue
Prompted by the thirtieth anniversary of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's death, this exchange between two prominent intellectuals is rich with surprising insights.
Alain Badiou shares... (more)
The Failed Assassination of Psychoanalysis: The Rise and Fall of Cognitivism
It can happen that a law incurs the wrath of the very people it set out to protect. This is what happened in France at the end of 2003 with the Accoyer Amendment, a Bill that intended to regulate the... (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)
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)
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in Mothers' Hands
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in Mothers' Hands is a playful exploration of how people's desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It... (more)
A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
In A Psychoanalyst on the Couch we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst's couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight... (more)
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the... (more)
An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing
Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Some works are either interactive or entirely autonomous, and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be... (more)
Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
If advances in medical technology now allow babies to be born earlier and survive premature birth, what of the psychical impact of this emergence into the world? What consequences can premature birth... (more)
Hysteria Today
Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something... (more)
Lost in Cognition: Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to... (more)
Psychoanalysis is An Antiphilosophy
Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death – as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters.
Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the... (more)