David Pettigrew
David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University.
The Book of Love and Pain: Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan
In The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than three... (more)
Disseminating Lacan
This book brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated. It outlines the wider shape of Lacanian discourse, showing its relations to philosophy, science, literature,... (more)
Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan
Provides numerous theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments. For Nasio it is the unconscious,... (more)
Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis
First English translation of Nasio’s groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France’s leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that the... (more)