Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan

Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan
Author: Juan-David Nasio
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1998-07-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791438329

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In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work, Nasio eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments.

Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight

Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight
Author: Shoshana Felman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1987
Genre: Criticism
ISBN: 9780674471214

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Felman analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's singular way of making Freud's thought new again, Felman shows how this moment of illumination has become crucial to contemporary thinking and has redefined insight as such.

Introductory Lectures on Lacan

Introductory Lectures on Lacan
Author: Astrid Gessert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429915209

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Lacan developed his theory and practice of psychoanalysis on the basis of Freud's original work. In his "return to Freud" he not only elaborated and revised some of Freud's innovative ideas, but turned to important questions and problems in Freud's theory that had remained obscure and unresolved, and provided a new way of articulating these issues and their implication for psychoanalytic theory and practice. This book offers a selection of chapters about some of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. The authors aim to explore the trajectory of the development of these concepts from their original basis in Freud's work to their elaboration by Lacan. The book will be of interest to readers from different backgrounds, including the clinical and academic field, social and cultural studies and the arts, for whom psychoanalytic ideas may be a relatively new field to explore, or who are looking for new perspectives to develop their ideas about psychoanalysis.

The Title of the Letter

The Title of the Letter
Author: Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1992-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438414102

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This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for the particular light it casts on Lacan's complex relation to linguistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. It clarifies the way Lacan renews or transforms the psychoanalytic field, through his diversion of Saussure's theory of the sign, his radicalization of Freud's fundamental concepts, and his subversion of dominant philosophical values. The authors argue, however, that Lacan's discourse is marked by a deep ambiguity: while he invents a new "language," he nonetheless maintains the traditional metaphysical motifs of systemacity, foundation, and truth.

My Teaching

My Teaching
Author: Jacques Lacan
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2009-01-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1844672719

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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 introduction to the thought of the influential psychoanalyst after Freud.

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy

Lacan, Language, and Philosophy
Author: Russell Grigg
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0791478882

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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 by a background in analytic philosophy. He addresses key issues in Lacanian psychoanalysis, from the clinical (how psychosis results from the foreclosure of the signifier the Name-of-the Father; the father as a symbolic function; the place of transference) to the philosophical (the logic of the "pas-tout"; the link between the superego and Kant's categorical imperative; a critique of Žižek's account of radical change). Grigg's expertise and knowledge of psychoanalysis produce a major contribution to contemporary philosophical and psychoanalytic debates.

A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis

A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Author: Bruce Fink
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1999-09-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674979923

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"The goal of my teaching has always been, and remains, to train analysts." --Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, 209 Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. Written by a clinician for clinicians, Fink's Introduction is an invaluable guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, how it's done, and how it differs from other forms of therapy. While elucidating many of Lacan's theoretical notions, the book does so from the perspective of the practitioner faced with the pressing questions of diagnosis, what therapeutic stance to adopt, how to involve the patient, and how to bring about change. Fink provides a comprehensive overview of Lacanian analysis, explaining the analyst's aims and interventions at each point in the treatment. He uses four case studies to elucidate Lacan's unique structural approach to diagnosis. These cases, taking up both theoretical and clinical issues in Lacan's views of psychosis, perversion, and neurosis, highlight the very different approaches to treatment that different situations demand.

Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
Author: Jacques Lacan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1991
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393306972

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A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Psychanalyse.

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis
Author: Moustafa Safouan
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1590516567

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In this delightfully readable and clearly written volume, the world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he found in Freud. Yet thanks to Lacan's early presentation of the father as real, imaginary, and symbolic, Safouan stayed on, working with Lacan until Lacan?s death in 1981. One can track the evolution of Safouan's teaching through his participation in Lacan's published seminars and his early contributions. Safouan wrote this book in English, starting with a transcript from a series of lectures he delivered to the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco, in March of 2001. Safouan clears up many of Lacan's own obscurities, although he is quick to point out that there are no contradictions in Lacan. Readers will find the cause of desire, both through the signifier and through the 'normative' (rather than normal) development of the child. Safouan explains the three forms of lack, the root of subjectivity, the desire of the analyst, the Other as different from the other, the object cause of desire, transference, countertransference and lateral transference, and the analytic act in a narrative that brings these and other concepts together, in a 'dictionary' that could never be divided by terms.

The Book of Love and Pain

The Book of Love and Pain
Author: Juan-David Nasio
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780791459263

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Addresses the limits in treating pain psychoanalytically, and offers a phenomenological description of psychic pain, particularly the pain of a lost loved one.