Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Evolving Lacanian Perspectives for Clinical Psychoanalysis: On Narcissism, Sexuation, and the Phases of Analysis in Contemporary Culture
This book presents an evolving Lacanian reading of the psychoanalytic theory of narcissism, of the phases within Oedipus, transference, and within different types of analytic treatments. Sexual... (more)
Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst
Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire on psychoanalysis ever since? How has... (more)
Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis
These eight probing essays explore the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida ("Speech and Phenomena", "Of Grammatology", and his later writing on autoimmunity, cruelty,... (more)
Passion for the Human Subject: A Psychoanalytical Approach Between Drives and Signifiers
Each one of us has to be born "inter urinas et faeces", as St. Augustine so strikingly put it. More recently, Freud's 1915 discovery of 'instincts' - that is, 'drives' - and their 'viscitudes' leads... (more)
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan... (more)
The Later Lacan: An Introduction
This book includes essays by some of the finest practicing analysts and teachers of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian community today. The writings offer an essential introduction to the later teachings... (more)
The Letter 37: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2006
Summer 2006 issue. Rolando Karothy: The writing of Joyce; Oscar Zentner: From the Lacan-Joyce correspondence; Colette Soler: Joyce's Nora; Andrew Lewis: The psychoanalytic case history; Stephen J.... (more)
Listening Awry: Music and Alterity in German Culture
In his first book, Listening Subjects, David Schwarz succeeded in fusing post-Lacanian psychoanalytic, musical-theoretical, and musical-historical perspectives. In Listening Awry, he expands his... (more)
The Letter 36: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2006
Spring 2006 issue. Cormac Gallagher: Lacan's Viator and the Time Traveller's Wife; Barry O'Donnell: Lacan's invention; Florencia F.C. Shanahan: Erring fathers; Patricia McCarthy: Psychoanalysis is... (more)
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism
Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism... (more)
Ricoeur and Lacan
This is the first comparative study of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the psychoanalayst Jacques Lacan. The book explores the conflict between the two thinkers that arose from their... (more)
Beyond Lacan (Hardback)
See catalogue number 26857 for the paperback edition. In Beyond Lacan, James M. Mellard traces psychoanalytic literary theory and practice from Freud to Lacan to Zizek. While Freud effectively... (more)
Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory
"Amorous Acts" illustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human interactions. More specifically, it employs... (more)
Lacan's Medievalism
One of the foundational premises of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical project was that the history of philosophy concealed the history of desire, and one of the goals of his work was to show how... (more)
The Letter 34: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2005
Calum Neill: An idiotic act: On the non-example of Antigone; Helena Texier: Antigone goes beyond-the-beyond: From the my lady of the ideal to the malady of the Ideal; Kazushige Shingu: Freud, Lacan... (more)
The Letter 33: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2005
Cormac Gallagher: Re-Englishing Encore; Pauline O'Callaghan: Courtly love to Courtney Love: Still no such thing as a sexual relationship?; Patricia McCarthy: A commentary on Lacan's hainamoration and... (more)
The Letter 28 & 29 (Double Issue): Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2003 - Autumn 2003
Issue 28, Summer 2003 Contents: Veroniek Knockaert, Gertrudis Van De Vijver and Filip Geerardyn: The intergenerational transmission of the holocaust trauma: Thelegacy of an impossible memory; Rob... (more)
Lacan: The Silent Partners
It is well known that Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art, past and present. Yet what if there is another frame of reference, rarely or never mentioned... (more)
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. (more)
The Matrixial Borderspace
A groundbreaking intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory. Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared... (more)
Transcribing Lacan's Seminars - Memoirs of a Disgruntled Keybasher Turned Psychoanalyst
The author began her working career as a freelance conference steno-typist, and it was in this capacity that she was Jacques Lacan's steno-typist ("keybasher") from 1967 to 1979. It was only after... (more)
Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalysis was neither a product of philosophy nor of academic study. Rather, psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. Freud took his lead from hysterical women; the accounts of their pain,... (more)
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology
W hy is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?
Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and... (more)
Interrogating the Real
Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring,... (more)
Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter (Hardback)
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)
A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
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)
Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory
Slavoj Zizek is undoubtedly one of the world's leading cultural critics. His witty, psychoanalytically-inspired analyses of contemporary society have almost single-handedly revived the notion of... (more)
The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics
Engaging with the role of affect and emotion in political life through the central Lacanian notion of 'enjoyment', The Lacanian Left puts forward innovative anlyses of political power and authority,... (more)