Jacques Lacan Books
April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981
Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made significant contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His ideas centered on Freudian concepts like the unconscious, the castration complex, and the ego, emphasizing the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, and mathematics. Though a controversial figure, Lacan's work is widely studied in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy, as well as in the practice of clinical psychoanalysis.
Exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis and contemporary society, this new translation of Jacques Lacan's work provides insightful analysis of Freud, Marx, and Hegel. It delves into social and sexual behavior patterns while examining the role of science and knowledge today. This accessible edition invites readers to engage with Lacan's profound ideas, making complex concepts more understandable for a modern audience.
Anxiety
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather its imminence.
...or Worse
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as "foreclosure," or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications for treatment. In these lectures on the psychoses, Lacan's renowned theory of metaphor and metonymy, along with the concept of the "quilting point," appears for the first time.
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.
Desire and its Interpretation
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
The Object Relation
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.