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)
Translated by Marie-Claude Hays, a thesis drawn from clinical experience where the central concern, of the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents, is linked to other... (more)
Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, yet it is widely misunderstood and abused. Here, Serge Leclaire offers a lucid... (more)