Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Lacan and Science
The current volume represents an exciting collection of essays critically examining the relation between modern science and Lacanian psychoanalysis in approaching the question of mental suffering.... (more)
Speaking desires can be dangerous: The poetics of the subconscious
A study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts. Elizabeth Wright addresses the sharp division that has been assumed between the clinical and the aesthetic and sets out to show in detail how... (more)
A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. Each of the... (more)
Love of Beginnings
Winner of the Prix Femina and considered a masterpiece of autobiography, this is J. B. Pontalis’ lyrical meditation on his own life. One of France’s preeminent psychoanalysts, he is co-author of the... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
Discusses the Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, the relation of the symbol and the machine, repetition, and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'.
Jacques Lacan: Outline of a Life, History of a System of Thought
Historian, psychoanalyst, and close member of Lacan's inner circle, Elisabeth Roudinesco tells the convoluted story of Jacques Lacan. From his early clinical practice to his many conflicts with the... (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)
Sexes and Genealogies
Covers major issues in religion, the law, psychoanalysis and literature, and analyzing sexual difference. (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Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise...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)
The Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach to Racism and Racialization
The Psychosis of Race offers a unique and detailed account of the psychoanalytic significance of race, and the ongoing impact of racism in contemporary society.
Moving beyond the well-trodden... (more)
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus... (more)
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced... (more)
Lacan in the End Times: In the Name of the Absent Father
This book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the... (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)
Reading Lacan's Écrits: From 'Logical Time' to 'Response to Jean Hyppolite'
Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to... (more)
Studying Lacan’s Seminar VI: Dream, Symptom, and the Collapse of Subjectivity
The second volume in the Studying Lacan's Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation. A natural companion to Bruce Fink's recent... (more)
The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants
The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties and intervention with babies and their... (more)
Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan: On the Blazing Sublime
This groundbreaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung-Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime held at Cambridge, England, against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the... (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)
Making Sense
Like Homer’s Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious... (more)
Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Sympton
Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books,... (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)
...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
'A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautr amont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (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 Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'
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)
Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory
For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns man’s relationship to the question of ‘woman’ but femininity is also a matter of... (more)
From Psychoanalytic Bisexuality to Bisexual Psychoanalysis: Desiring in the Real
This is the first book to assess bisexuality through a range of psychoanalytic and critical perspectives, highlighting both the issues faced by bisexual people in contemporary society and the... (more)
Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire
This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object... (more)