Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Beyond the psychoanalytic dyad: Developmental semiotics in Freud, Peirce and Lacan
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body, and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American... (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)
Jacques Lacan
A clear introduction to Lacan's work, showing its roots in linguistics and structural anthropology, and examing the meaning of the 'return to Freud'. (more)
This Sex Which is Not One
Elaborates upon some of the major themes in 'Speculum' and considers the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts.
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
An imaginary dialogue with Nietzche designed to interrogate the philosopher on his views of the feminine. (more)
Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference
A series of short essays on language, power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies. (more)
The Irigaray Reader
Selected highlights from Irigaray's works, providing an effective overview of her ideas. (more)
The emptiness of the image: psychoanalysis and sexual differences
This study argues that psychoanalytic theory retains an overwhelming explanatory strength in relation to questions of sexual difference and representation. It seeks to show how the issue of desire... (more)
Genealogies of the Text Literature, psychoanalysis and politics in mo
Presents and conrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech, and reassesses them in the light of modern linguistics. (more)
The Birth of the Other
Offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian perspective. We see how children pass through the mirror stage, locate themselves in the Imaginary and Symbolic registers, and emerge as... (more)
Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading Otherwise
This thought-provoking volume contains readings of Shakespeare - including Lacan's study of Hamlet - Coleridge, Dante, as well as Freud, Lacan, Marx, Derrida and Plato. (more)
Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalyis in Contemporary Culture
Illuminates the power and originality of Lacan's work, analyzing his view of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. (more)
In Dora's Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism
'These new writings - feminist, deconstructive, and Lacanian, for the most part - have a wild playfulness and a sort of sexual sparkle that...give them an extraordinary verve... The sex-playful... (more)
Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries
Looks at Lacanian psychoanlaysis in a clinical context and how the ancient mysteries of the phallus, prefigure concepts of the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. (more)
History after Lacan
Argues that Lacan was not an ahistorical poststructuralist and recovers a neglected theory of history in Lacan's work, to develop her own theory of modernity based on social psychosis. (more)
Reading Foucault Through Lacan: From Hysteric to Analyst
Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities. Yet beneath their distinct projects... (more)
A Lacanian Neuropsychoanalysis: Consciousness Enjoying Uncertainty
This book brings together Lacanian psychoanalysis, neuropsychoanalytic work by Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan, Jaak Panksepp’s affective neuroscience, Karl Friston’s free energy principle, Adrian... (more)
Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen
Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion.
James... (more)
Powers of Abjection: Politics and Lacanian Ontology
In this book, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff presents a new ontological understanding of politics through the writings of Julia Kristeva's notion of "abjection" in dialogue with Sigmund Freud's concept of... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Governance: Discourse and Decisions, Identities and Futures
Psychoanalysis and Governance makes a cogent argument for the use of psychoanalytic perspectives in the understanding of governance, the process of collective decision-making which maintains and... (more)
New Remarks on the Passage to the Act: Lacan and the Lacanians
New Remarks on the Passage to the Act considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence.
Jean Allouch... (more)
The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan: Literature, Lituraterre, Litterature
The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan’s interest in literary topics.
Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which... (more)
Lacan and Psychoanalytic Obsolescence: The Importance of Lacan as Irritant
This book explores the importance of Lacan’s role as an irritant within psychoanalysis, and how Freud and Lacan saw that as key to ensuring that psychoanalysis remained fresh and vital rather than... (more)
My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise... (more)
Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology: A Reader's Guide
First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Žižek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. It was an iconoclastic reinvention of ideology critique that... (more)
Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack
This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.
The... (more)