Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
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)
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)
Lacan for Beginners
Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are Lacanians) yet most people know nothing about him. The... (more)
Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education
Examining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion... (more)
From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious: Lacan, Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology
This striking Lacanian contribution to discourse analysis is also a critique of contemporary psychological abstraction, as well as a reassessment of the radical opposition between psychology and... (more)
Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed... (more)
Lacan and the Destiny of Literature: Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery
This is an original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably... (more)
It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction
This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques... (more)
Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject
Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency. In "Signifiers and Acts" Ed Pluth examines Lacan's views on language and sexuality to argue... (more)
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)
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)
The Trainings of the Psychoanalyst
If psychoanalysis, for Freud, was an impossible profession, what consequences would this have for psychoanalytic training? And if one's own personal analysis lay at the heart of psychoanalytic... (more)
Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture and Film
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are... (more)
Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Explores the linguistic turn in psychoanalysis taken by Jacques Lacan. Russell Grigg provides lively and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded in clinical experience and informed... (more)
Feminine Look: Sexuation, Spectatorship, Subversion
"Feminine Look" shows how the Lacanian concept of sexuation makes possible a new account of the relationship among feminism, psychoanalysis, and spectatorship. Whereas previous studies have tended to... (more)
Love in a Time of Loneliness
Noted Belgian psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe shows us what it is about sex that both keeps us moving and inhibits us at the same time. The first essay, “The Impossible Couple”, is both a humorous and... (more)
Lacan and the Limits of Language
This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of... (more)
Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory
This is a powerful theological engagement with psychoanalytic theory in Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and Zizek, as well as major expressions of contemporary Continental philosophy, including Deleuze,... (more)
Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes
In "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a death... (more)
Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject (Hardback)
See catalogue number 28060 for the paperback edition. Situates Lacan's theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency. In "Signifiers and Acts" Ed Pluth... (more)
Beyond Lacan
In "Beyond Lacan", James M. Mellard traces psychoanalytic literary theory and practice from Freud to Lacan to Zizek. While Freud effectively presupposes an unconscious that is textual, it is Lacan... (more)
The Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic: A History of its Structure and Power
This book provides a detailed examination of the historical roots of psychoanalysis from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century, focusing on social practices that were related to the founders... (more)
The Graph of Desire: Using the Work of Jacques Lacan
The 'graph of desire' is one of the principal points of reference in Lacanian psychoanalysis. In this book the graph is analyzed in its multiple aspects and relations. Step by step, the author... (more)