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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 September 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…
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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…
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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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An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

By Dylan Evans.

Published May 1996

Jacques Lacan's thinking revolutionised the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and had a major impact in fields as diverse as film studies, literary criticism, feminist theory and philosophy. Yet his writings are notorious for their complexity and idiosyncratic style. Emphasising the clinical…
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Jacques Lacan

A Feminist Introduction

By Elizabeth Grosz.

Published August 1990

Grosz gives a critical overview of Lacan's work from a feminist perspective. Discussing previous attempts to give a feminist reading of his work, she argues for women's autonomy based on an indifference to the Lacanian phallus.…
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