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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.

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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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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, idiosyncratic development of psychoanalysis, this volume brings new perspectives to the work of an intimidating influential thinker.
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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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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 and discussed in depth. Nicholas Kouretas, Harvard Medical School
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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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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 around five key issues: diagnosis, the analyst's position during the treatment, the management of transference, the formulation of interpretations, and the organisation of analytic training. For each of these issues, Lacan's entire work both published and unpublished material, has been taken into account and theoretical principles have been illustrated with clinical examples. The book also contains the first complete bibliography of Lacan's works in English.Clear, detailed, and wide ranging, Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis will prove essential reading, not only for professionals and students within the fields of psychology and psychiatry , but for all those keen to discover a new Lacan.
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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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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 book does not presuppose any familiarity with Lacanian theory on the part of the reader, nor a prior acquaintance with Ecrits or the Seminars.
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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.

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...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.

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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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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, anthropology, women's studies, and literature. In Lacan And The Human Sciences eight eminent scholars examine how ideas entered these fields, how well they were understood and adapted, and what fruit they have produced.
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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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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 political implications of Lacan's work as a whole for students coming to Lacan for the first time.The first part of Lacan and the Political offers a straightforward and systematic assessment of the importance of Lacan's categories and theoretical constructions for concrete political analysis. The second half of the book applies Lacanian theory to specific examples of widely discussed political issues, such as Green ideology, the question of democracy and the hegemony of advertising in contemporary culture.
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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.

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...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.

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...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.

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...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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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 subject and sexual difference, Seshadri-Crooks explores how the discourse of race parallels that of sexual difference in making racial identity a fundamental component of our thinking.Through close readings of literary and film texts, Seshardi-Crooks demonstrates that race is a system of differences organized around a privileged term: Whiteness. Contra 'Whiteness Studies', she argues that Whiteness should not be understood as the bodily or material property of a particular group, but as a term that makes the logic of race thinking possible.
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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.

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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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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 writing bears witness to a history that remains unspeakable, functioning as a material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory and brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.
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Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely » Read Now
by Bruce Fink. 193 pgs.

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Freudians and Feminists (Chap. 5 "Jacques Lacan and French Feminism") » Read Now
by Edith Kurzweil. 223 pgs.

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...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.

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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.