Jacques-Alain Miller Books

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 influential and diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Marx, and Freud. From here he leads us through mathematics, philosophy, religion, and, naturally, psychoanalysis into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives. Anticipated by English-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents Lacan's most sophisticated work on love, desire, and jouissance.

This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based," namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from sexuality and death to alienation and repression. This book constitutes the essence of Dr. Lacan's sensibility.

Die Beziehung zwischen Sprache und Genießen in der späten Lehre Lacans wird in den Vorträgen und Vorlesungen von Jacques-Alain Miller anschaulich erörtert. Als Herausgeber der Seminare bietet Miller tiefgehende Einblicke in Lacans Werk und dessen Aktualisierung. Wichtige Themen sind der Status des Körpers in der analytischen Kur sowie Lacans Definition des Symptoms als Körperereignis. Ein zentraler Abschnitt widmet sich den drei Zeitdimensionen und deren Einfluss auf das Unbewusste und das erotische Leben, was wertvolle Perspektiven für das Verständnis psychoanalytischer Konzepte eröffnet.