Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan X: Anxiety
From unedited French manuscripts
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
First Writings
Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didn’t invite us to read them retroactively. What can they teach us... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 41: a-Normality
There is an obvious commotion in the field of normality today. For example, the widespread rejection of norms imposed by the Other is reflected in the language of the young, especially on social... (more)
Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice
This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Divided into four key areas, the book considers clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects... (more)
A Lacanian Reading of Anorexia
This book presents a Lacanian perspective on the understanding and treatment of anorexia, supported by case material, research and theoretical insight from the author’s 25 years of clinical... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38: The Other, the One
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, we are all talking about the One. Everyone is talking about the concept of the One.
Psychoanalytical Notebooks 37/38 joins the conversation, offering an array of... (more)
Studies on Hysteria Revisited: Charles Melman on Trauma, Incompatibility, Repression and the Unconscious
Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria.
In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of... (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 9: Still Life?
Editorial
Marie-Hélène Brousse & Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, The Discipline of the Double Meaning
Speaking Being Is Waste
Laura Sokolowsky, Psychoanalysis is an... (more)
The Lacanian Review: Issue 8: Nightmare
The Lacanian Review (TLR) takes Lacan’s proposition that we wake up in order to continue dreaming, with eyes wide open. What wakes us up? The Nightmare.
With new translations of Jacques Lacan... (more)
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII
'Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders... (more)
Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital
'I've been talking to brick walls,' says Lacan, meaning: 'Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me.' ... (more)
Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'
The Ecrits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading... (more)
Lacanian Ink 49: Parlêtre
Contents:
Josefina Ayerza - To Resume Again…
Pierre Ray - The Case of Pierre Ray As Told By Pierre Ray
Antonio di Ciaccia - The Young Man's Strings
Jacques-Alain Miller, di Ciaccia et al -... (more)
Lacanian Ink 48: Humpty Dumpty
Josefina Ayerza - To Resume Again…
A Family Paranoia - The Conversation
Carol Dewambrechies-La Sagna - At the Author’s Expense
Jacques-Alain Miller - When the Semblants... (more)
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds: Schizophrenia in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds examines the history, conceptualisation, and treatment of the psychotic sub-type of schizophrenia, as this is advocated by psychoanalysis of Lacanian... (more)
The Triumph of Religion
'I am the product of priests', Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the... (more)
On the Names-of-the-Father
What astonishing success The Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and... (more)
Obsessional Neurosis: Lacanian Perspectives
Despite the important place it occupies in both Freudian and Lacanian nosology, obsessional neurosis has received far less attention than its erstwhile companion hysteria. This volume of essays aims... (more)
Lacanian Affects: The Function of Affect in Lacan's Work
Affect is a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis, but there has long been a misperception that Lacan neglected affect in his writings. We encounter affect at the beginning of any analysis in the form... (more)
Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity
Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that... (more)
Against Understanding Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key
Against Understanding, Volume 2 casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians’ expertise and mastery rather than patients’ actual... (more)
Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
If advances in medical technology now allow babies to be born earlier and survive premature birth, what of the psychical impact of this emergence into the world? What consequences can premature birth... (more)
The Surface Effect: The Screen of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis
Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the "mother of all media"? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real? In The Surface Effect Andre Nusselder examines the... (more)
The Lacan Tradition
The Lacanian tradition is unique among psychoanalytic schools in its influence upon academic fields such as literature, philosophy, cultural and critical studies. This book aims to make Lacan’s ideas... (more)
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan
Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan takes concepts from the psychoanalytic literature and translates them into user-friendly language. In this book, Charles focuses on clinical work with... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.23: Our Orientation
Jacques-Alain Miller - At the Coliseum
Carole Dewambrechies-La Sagna - The true anorexia of a young girl
Alfredo Zenoni - When the child is the object
Marie-Hélène Blancard - The uncanny... (more)
What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse
Childhood is defined in different preconceived manners by different discourses. Thus the categories defined by age such as infant, child, adolescent and so on, are to some extent arbitrary divisions... (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)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIX: ...Ou Pire/...Or Worse 1971-1972
From unedited French manuscripts