Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
Psychoanalysis is An Antiphilosophy
Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death – as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters.
Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the... (more)
Against Understanding Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key
Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar,... (more)
Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
A study of Lacan’s engagement with the Western philosophical traditions of ethical and political thought in his seventh seminar and later work.
With its privileging of the unconscious, Jacques... (more)
The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held... (more)
The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference
Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Both Freud and Lacan defined... (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)
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)
Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis
Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of... (more)
The Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates... (more)
Concept and Form: Interviews and Essays on Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 2
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten... (more)
Concept and Form: Selections from Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 1
Edited by a small group of students - including Alain Badiou, Jacques- Alain Miller and Francois Regnault - at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l'Analyse appeared in ten... (more)
The Heart of Man's Destiny: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought
Can Luther's writings inform us on the fundamental questions of Freudian psychoanalysis? Does an intellectual filiation between early Reformation thought and psychoanalysis exist? Does Lacanian... (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)
Lacan and the Concept of the 'Real'
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap
The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivity, no matter how weak or uncertain it may be, of... (more)
Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis
First English translation of Nasio’s groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France’s leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that the... (more)
Lacan - The Unconscious Reinvented
Has Jacques Lacan’s impact on psychoanalysis really been assessed? His formulation that the Freudian unconscious is “structured like a language” is well-known, but this was only the beginning. There... (more)
Lacan Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'.... (more)
Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
The entire legacy of Jacques Lacan is permeated by his deep interest in psychosis and psychotic phenomena. This book examines Lacan's contribution to our understanding of psychosis, proposing that... (more)
Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity
A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacans thinking. This book argues that a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our... (more)
Lacan and Klein, Creation and Discovery: An Essay of Reintroduction
On the one hand, Creation and Discovery, Lacan and Klein seeks to disclose the often suppressed or unacknowledged proximity, even intimacy, between Lacan and Klein, and thereby to facilitate a... (more)
Lacanian Psychotherapy: Theory and Practical Applications
The work of Jacques Lacan is associated more with literature and philosophy than mainstream American psychology, due in large part to the dense language he often employs in articulating his theory -... (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)
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)
Invention in the Real: Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne: Volume 24
The Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, Volume 24 give testament to that quasi - suicidal risk taken by analysts and members of the school, in applying, not a technique, but the Freudian... (more)
The Dialogues in and of the Group: Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group
This book is intended to be an introductory presentation of some key concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis as applied to the psychoanalytic group. The author describes his own encounter with Lacan and... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity
Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and... (more)
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated... (more)
Lacan and Addiction: An Anthology
With chapters from Rik Loose, Fabian Naparstek, Patricia Gherovici, Bruce Fink, Thomos Svolos and many others, the anthology is for people interested in the topic of addictions, or in Lacanian... (more)
Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism
"I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles."
Thus we meet Ella, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies... (more)