Ellie Ragland is Professor of English and Honorary French Professor as well as Frederick A. Middlebush Chair at the University of Missouri where she teaches psychoanalytic theory and world literature. She is author of seven authored and edited books on Lacanian psychoanalysis. She is a practicing psychoanalyst and is a member of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis.
Examines the transformation and translation of Freud's theories - in particular, the differences and interconnections between Freud's and Lacan's work.
A volume which includes newly commissioned material on the theory of language and knowledge elaborated by Lacan in his seminars between 1953-1980. The topics covered range from why Lacan was first... (more)
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)
In The Logic of Sexuation, Ellie Ragland offers a detailed account of Jacques Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference.