Product Description: The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. Many of the issues are still relevant today, among them mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism, object choice, and the complex relationship between gender and biology...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment. This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers welcome, readable access to the brilliant author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary world...read more

Product Description: This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues...read more

Product Description: Since its inception, Lacanian psychoanalysis has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for inducing acrimonious conflicts and facilitating tumultuous struggles between its own constituency and other areas of inquiry, as well as within its own ranks and among its most loyal adherents...read more

Product Description: The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women's studies and gender theory. Many of the issues are still relevant today, among them mothering, passivity, hysteria, masochism, object choice, and the complex relationship between gender and biolog...read more

During the third year of his famous seminar, Jaques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis. He focuses on grappling with the distinctions between neuroses and the psychoses and erects a structure for psychosis.