Jacques Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud.
Drei Vorträge, gehalten zwischen Juni 1967 und April 1968 in der »Provinz«, vor einem offenen Publikum, das nicht nur aus Psychoanalytikern besteht: kein »Heimspiel« also, sondern eher, wie Jacques-Alain Miller sagt, ein &raqu...
Offers access to Jacques Lacan's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behaviour; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary world.
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 and media studies.
âFinkâs precise new translation makes this pivotal period in Lacanâs thought more accessible to English speakers.ââ Publishers Weekly , starred review
Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as liter...
Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence influence on contemporary thought and culture.
Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articl...
In his psycholinguistic exploration of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge, Jacques Lacan leads into an new way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives.
Often controversial, always inspired, French intellectual Jacques Lacan begins the twentieth year of his famous Seminar by weighing theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such influential and diverse...
Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions and "the attraction of transgression," Lacan illuminates...
During the third year of his famous seminar, Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: âPsychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captu...
In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freudâs work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalystâs...
The second half of this illuminating volume, A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, includes the "dossier on the institutional debate." The papers it comprises--such as the July 1953 report from the president of the International Psychanalytic...