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Lacan, Jacques - zhäk läkäNˈ, 1901–81, French psychoanalyst. After receiving a medical degree, he became a psychoanalyst in Paris. Lacan was infamous for his unorthodox methods of treatment, such as the truncated therapy session, which often lasted only several minutes. A staunch critic of modern (particularly American) revisions of psychoanalytic theory, Lacan


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    The Cambridge Companion to Lacan » Read Now

    by Jean-Michel Rabate. 290 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Jacques Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at a time when it faced certain intellectual decline. Focusing on key terms in Lacan's often difficult...
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    Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured like a Language » Read Now

    by Joel Dor, Judith Feher Gurewich. 296 pgs.

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    A major and long overdue addition to the American/English psychoanalytic literature . . . written specifically for clinicians, by a clinician . . . All major conceptsamong them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subjectare developed...
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    Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis » Read Now

    by Dany Nobus. 258 pgs.

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    Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis paints a completely new picture of the man and his ideas. The book suceeds in showing how ideas can become more accessible, and re-evaluates his significance within the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy.The book is structured thematically...
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    Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis » Read Now

    by Dany Nobus. 234 pgs.

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    In Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, eight crucial Lacanian ideas are explained through detailed expolaration of the theoretical and/or practical context in which Lacan introduced them, the way in which they developed throughout his works, and the questions they were designed to answer. The...
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    Lacan and the New Wave in American Psychoanalysis: The Subject and the Self » Read Now

    by Judith Feher Gurewich, Michel Tort, Susan Fairfield. 276 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...ISBN 1-892746-03-4 pbk. 1. Lacan, Jacques, 1901 -- Congresses. 2. Self...of women. 1 Whos Afraid of Jacques Lacan? JUDITH FEHER GUREWIC, PH...varying use of the thought of...
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    Lacan & the Human Sciences » Read Now

    by Alexandre Leupin. 178 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Jacques Lacan's provocative essays and wide-ranging seminars and lectures attempted, with remarkable success, to bridge the supposedly unbridgeable gap between the humanities and modern science. For some time his influence has shadowed the theoretical work being done in philosophy, psychology...
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    Lacan and the Political » Read Now

    by Yannis Stavrakakis. 190 pgs.

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    The work of Jacques Lacan is second only to Freud in its impact on psychoanalysis. Yannis Stavrakakis clearly examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a political standpoint. It is the first book to provide an overview of the social and...
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    Lacan in Context: An Introduction to Lacan for the English-Speaking Reader, in College Literature » Read Now

    by Tamise Van Pelt. 14 pgs.

    ...internationally. Michael Clarks Jacques Lacan, An Annotated Bibliography lists...analytic understanding. This reader Jacques Lacan hears the speech of his...
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    The Real and Symbolic in Lacan, Zen, and Kabbalah, in International Journal for the Psychology of Religion » Read Now

    by Raul Moncayo. 18 pgs.

    ...COMMENTARY The Real and Symbolic in Lacan, Zen, and Kabbalah Raul Moncayo...functions and to be in opposition to reality, Lacan pointed out that metaphor or myth may...of...
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    Freud, Lacan, and the Subject of Cultural Studies, in College Literature » Read Now

    by Robert Con Davis. 16 pgs.

    ...psychoanalysis. This text, designated by Jacques Lacan the great Freudian "dream of...technique de la psychanalyse ) , Lacan reads the same dream segments...Praxis ( 1981...
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    Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race » Read Now

    by Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks. 182 pgs.

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    Desiring Whiteness provides a compelling new interpretation of how we understand race. It explores visual discrimination by asking questions in specifically psychoanalytic terms: how do subjects become raced? Is it common sense to read bodies as racially marked? Employing Lacan's theories of the...
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    Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the Trauma of History: Reading, Narrative and Postcolonialism » Read Now

    by Christine Van Boheemen-Saaf. 227 pgs.

    Christine van Boheemen examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derrida's philosophy, Van Boheemen suggests, ought to be viewed from a postcolonial perspective. Joyce's...
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    Freudians and Feminists (Chap. 5 "Jacques Lacan and French Feminism") » Read Now

    by Edith Kurzweil. 223 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...85 5 Jacques Lacan and French Feminism 93 Jacques Lacans Ascent in Paris...99 Lacan and "Desire," 100...French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and German psychoanalyst...
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    Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis: Readings in Contemporary Theory (Chap. 12 "Illusions with Futures: Jacques Lacan" and Chap. 13 "God and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Toward a Reconsideration of the Discipline of Religious Studies") » Read Now

    by Janet Liebman Jacobs, Donald Capps. 288 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Beginning with Freud's views on religion and mystical experience this volume surveys the work of 3 generations of psychoanalytic theorists. Special attention is given to objects relations theory and ego psychology.

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