This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts and his writing on: the imaginary and the symbolic; the Oedipus Complex and the meaning of the phallus; the subject and the unconscious ...
He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of ...
The book's inspired focus on the stages of Lacan's transformatoin of the concepts of the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary offers a new take on the French analyst's emergence not as a 'Lacanian, ' but as a 'Freudian.'
Often controversial, always inspired, French intellectual Jacques Lacan begins the twentieth year of his famous Seminar by weighing theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such ...
In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics.
Their dynamic dialogue draws readers into an intimate, at times contentious, yet ultimately productive debate that reinvigorates the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker.
Felman analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery.
The daemon of Αἰδώς (Aidós), Shame, about which I spoke to you before in this context, is what intervenes here. This is what is violated here.
This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers access to the author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and ...
LACAN AND CULTURAL THEORY Adams, P. (1996) The Emptiness ofthe Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences, London: Routledge. This collection of essays presents a sustained argument for the use of psychoanalysis in the analysis of ...