Psychoanalysis Arena

The Emptiness of Oedipus

Identification and Non-Identification in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

• By Raul Moncayo.

Published November 2011

Lacan's seminar on identification marks a turning point from the early to the later years of his work. In this book, Raul Moncayo builds on many of the concepts that Lacan developed in his seminar, focusing on the relationship between the unary trait and narcissism that occurs via ruling ideas,…
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Lacanian Psychotherapy

Theory and Practical Applications

• By Michael J. Miller.

Published May 2011

The work of Jacques Lacan is associated more with literature and philosophy than mainstream American psychology, due in large part to the dense language he employs in articulating his theory – including often at the expense of clinical illustration. As a result, his contributions are…
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Between Winnicott and Lacan

A Clinical Engagement

• Edited by Lewis A. Kirshner.

Published February 2011

D. W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, two of the most innovative and important psychoanalytic theorists since Freud, are also seemingly the most incompatible. And yet, in different ways, both men emphasized the psychic process of becoming a subject or of developing a separate self, and both believed…
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Revolutions in Subjectivity

• By Ian Parker.

Published July 2010

Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and explores its place within historical, social and political contexts. The book argues that Lacan’s…
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Please Select Your Gender

From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism

• By Patricia Gherovici.

Published January 2010

"I have the worst birth defect a woman can have: I was born with a penis and a pair of testicles." Thus we meet Hera, who shares her reason for starting psychoanalysis and whose statement embodies the debate over transgenderism, rigorously dissected in Please Select Your Gender. Is it a mental…
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Enjoy Your Symptom!

Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

• By Slavoj Zizek.

Published October 2007

The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie…
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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

• By Jacques Lacan.

Published September 2007

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that…
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Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

• By Dany Nobus, and Malcolm Quinn.

Published June 2005

Why is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics? Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework,…
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Having A Life

Self Pathology after Lacan

• By Lewis A. Kirshner.

Published March 2004

What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After…
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Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis

• By Dany Nobus.

Published August 2000

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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