The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
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- Publisher : Princeton University Press
- Published : May 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 248
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98221
- ISBN 13 : 9780691272917
- ISBN 10 : 0691272913
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This book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Guiding readers through many facets of Lacanian theory, Bruce Fink unpacks such central notions as the Other, object a, the unconscious as structured like a language, alienation and separation, the paternal metaphor, jouissance, and sexual difference. He demonstrates that, against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who proclaim “the death of the subject,” Lacan explores what it means to come into being as a subject in its ethical and ontological dimensions. Presenting Lacan’s thought in the context of his clinical preoccupations, The Lacanian Subject offers one of the most balanced, sophisticated, and penetrating views of Lacanian psychoanalysis available.
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Fink provides the first clear, comprehensive, and systematic account of Lacan’s work in English. The influence of this book is certain to be immense on theorists and therapists alike as it provides the fully articulated foundations for a Lacanian pedagogy and makes generally available a radically new understanding of the analyst’s role. A magnificent piece of intellectual synthesis and an imposing and original contribution to psychoanalytic thought.
Richard Klein, professor emeritus, Cornell University
The Lacanian Subject not only provides an excellent introduction into the fundamental coordinates of Jacques Lacan’s conceptual network; it also proposes original solutions to (or at least clarifications of) some of the crucial dilemmas left open by Lacan’s work.
Slavoj Žižek, Journal for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society
A remarkably clear, competent, and indeed fascinating account of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
Susan Buck-Morss, author of The Origin of Negative Dialectics
Table of Contents
Part I - Structure: Alienation and the Other
1. Language and Otherness
2. The Nature of Unconscious Thought, or How the Other Half 'Thinks'
3. The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real
Part II - The Lacanian Subject
4. The Lacanian Subject
5. The Subject and the Other's Desire
6. Metaphor and the Precipitation of Subjectivity
Part III - The Lacanian Object: Love, Desire, Jouissance
7. Object (a): Cause of Desire
8. There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Part IV - The Status of Psychoanalytic Discourse
9. The Four Discourses
10. Psychoanalysis and Science
About the Author(s)
Bruce Fink is a Lacanian psychoanalyst and supervisor who trained in France with the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne in Paris. He has translated several of Lacan's works into English - including Ecrits, The Names-of-the-Father, The Triumph of Religion, and Seminars VI, VIII, XVI, and XX - and is the author of numerous books on Lacan, including The Lacanian Subject, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Lacan to the Letter, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique, Against Understanding (2 volumes), and Lacan on Love. More recently, he published A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice. A board member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, he has also penned several mysteries involving a character loosely based on Jacques Lacan: The Psychoanalytic Adventures of Inspector Canal, Death by Analysis, Odor di Murderer/Scent of a Killer, The Purloined Love, and most recently The Da Vinci Staircase: Love and Turbulence in the Loire Valley. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages.
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