Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations
This work presents thoughts on the Lacanian subject: What are we as a speaking being? What makes us a human subject from a psychoanalytic perspective? Is it feelings and affect that make us a human?... (more)
Lacan and Other Heresies: Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings
This volume gathers together the recent writings of the analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne and the Belgian analyst Christian Fierens, displaying the ongoing interrogation by the... (more)
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
Schizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new... (more)
Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory
This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism... (more)
Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction
Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 36: Formation of the Analyst
How does one become a psychoanalyst in the Lacanian Orientation? A "must read" issue for anyone interested in this important topic. Far from training programmes which after x number of years, lead to... (more)
Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity: Spectre of Madness
The current rise in new religions and the growing popularity of New Ageism is concomitant with an increasingly anti-philosophical sentiment marking our contemporary situation. More specifically, it... (more)
Lacan and Critical Feminism: Subjectivity, Sexuation, and Discourse
This book takes a critical feminist approach to Lacan's fundamental concepts, merging discourse and sexuation theories in a novel way for both psychoanalysis and feminism, and exploring the... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture
This accessible and insightful book merges Lacanian theory, psychoanalytic case studies, and the author's personal experiences to illuminate the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in mapping... (more)
The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theories and Principles
The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis lays out an Aristotelian framework to account for the different types of knowing and not-knowing operative in the theory and practice of... (more)
In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies'... (more)
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in... (more)
Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void
In Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis, Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics, this approach shows that... (more)
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation
Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan's formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences. Are there two different... (more)
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)
Demanding the Impossible
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best,... (more)
Zizek Now: Current Perspectives in Zizek Studies
Arguably the most prolific and widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj i ek has made indelible interventions into a number of disciplines in the so-called human sciences that have transformed... (more)
Routledge Library Editions: Lacan
A major influence on French intellectuals in the twentieth century, Jacques Lacan has been referred to as 'the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud'. Routledge Library Editions: Lacan offers... (more)
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan
Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility -... (more)
The Letter 35: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Autumn 2005
NETS TO KNOTS: THE ODYSSEY TO A BEYOND OF BARBARISM - Cormac Gallagher; CALLING A SPATE A SPATE: RIVERRUN WRITING IN THE ANNA LIVIA SECTION OF FINNEGAN'S WAKE - Olga Cox Cameron; HOME COMES... (more)
The Letter 38: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Autumn 2006
Cormac Gallagher: From Freud's mythology of sexuality to Lacan's formulae of sexuation; Helen Sheehan: Sigmund Freud: the time for understanding; Gerry Sullivan: Freud in the twenty-first century: a... (more)
The Letter 30: Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Spring 2004
Cormac Gallagher: Where was Jacques Lacan in 1971-72? Ou Pire and The Knowledge of the Psychoanalysts; Claude-Noële Pickman: Examining a clinic of the not-all; Barry O'Donnell: The Parmenides and the... (more)
The Letter 25 & 26 (Double Issue): Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis: Summer 2002 - Autumn 2002
Issue 25, Summer 2002 Contents: Charles Melman: Returning to Schreber: 5th December 1994; Paul Verhaeghe: Remarks on the Theory and Treatment of (Pathological) Administrations of Enjoyment; Rik... (more)
Thinking Bodies:
The essays collected in this volume attest to a renewal of philosophical interest in how bodies think and how thought is embodied, a philosophy that has been deeply influenced by literature, the... (more)
Shades of noir
These essays examine "film noir" in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, attempting to move beyond the views of the early French critics. Topics range from the re-emergence of... (more)