Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)
Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how... (more)
The Seminar of Jaques Lacan Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Revolutionary and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference and enjoyment. This new translation of Lacan's deliberation... (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)
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
Dr Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIX: ...Ou Pire/...Or Worse 1971-1972
From unedited French manuscripts
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)
Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book X
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In this new translation of Anxiety, he explores the... (more)
Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference
Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us fall blindly into its traps... (more)
The Emptiness of Oedipus: Identification and Non-Identification in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Lacan's seminar on identification marks a turning point from the early to the later years of his work. In this book Raul Moncayo builds on many of the concepts that Lacan developed in his seminar,... (more)
Perversions of Fascism
Contemporary versions of evil demonise modern "fascists", "totalitarian threats", and "Hitlers". As if not obscure enough, fascist evil has been equivocally linked with perversion. This book reveals... (more)
On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must... (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)
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)
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)
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)
Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives
This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within... (more)
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism.... (more)
From Anxiety to Zoolander: Notes on Psychoanalysis
From Anxiety to Zoolander is a collection of writings on psychoanalytic themes. Each text was originally delivered as a talk, and the book aims to retain the informality and directness of the spoken... (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)
The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis
From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk... (more)
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)
Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII
This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May '68, Seminar XVII marked a turning... (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)
Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud
A systematic presentation of Lacan's early work, sophisticated analysis of his reversals in perspective in the mid-1960's, and extensive discussion of his diagnostic categories by prominent... (more)
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan seeks to understand the human sense of smell and its marks on our subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Accessibly written, the book considers... (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)
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)
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)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)