Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII
The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as well as in their dreams and fantasies. It has nothing... (more)
Making Sense
Like Homer’s Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVIII: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VIII: Transference
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy
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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)
Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English
Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. This new translation of his... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VI: Desire and its Interpretation
From unedited French manuscripts
Jacques Lacan: Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual
From unedited French manuscripts
On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge - Encore 1972-1973: Seminar XX
An annotated translation of Jacques Lacan's seminar weighing up theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge. The text draws upon the work of such diverse... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0
A collection of essays and pensées from a noted psychoanalyst and Lacanian thinker.
Inspired by Jacques Lacan's idea in his Seminar VI that "Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 34: Paradigms of Jouissance
We have compiled a series of three texts selected from Jacques-Alain Miller’s interventions on Lacan’s teaching. This provides reference points to Miller’s trajectory through questions arising from... (more)
The Clinical Case in Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective
The Clinical Case in Psychoanalysis explores the question of what makes a ‘case’ in psychoanalysis, more than a century after Freud invented analytic treatment.
Luis Izcovich brings a Lacanian... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Lacan: A Beginner's Guide
Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that... (more)
Ecrits: A Selection
Jacques Lacan has had a major influence on contemporary discourse. This translation of selected writings from his famous work offers access to nine of his most significant contributions to... (more)
Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction
Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term... (more)
Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject
Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not the fact of habitually engaging in specific abnormal or transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural... (more)
Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater
Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the 20th century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris,... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XXIII: Joyce and the Sinthome 1975-1976
From unedited French manuscripts. (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)
A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. Each of the... (more)