Birth of the Other

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   Originally published as Naissance de l' Autre (1980), Birth        of the Other offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian        perspective. In 1951-52 Rosine Lefort conducted the treatment of two largely        preverbal children, guiding them through psychoanalysis and meticulously        documenting their activities. Lefort has applied her subsequent training        in Lacanian theory to these early case notes, which provide remarkably        lucid examples of exceedingly difficult concepts.      This exceptional work thus clarifies many misconceptions about psychoanalytic        theory, furnishes unique insight into what Lacan calls the "time        of analysis," and grants a clearer understanding of the relationship        between language and the unconscious.      "Anyone interested in        Lacan's psychoanalytical theories should not fail to read these revealing        clinical studies by one of Lacan's most authoritative and lucid interpreters."        -- Herman Rapaport , author of Between the Sign and the Gaze