Introducing Lacan
Title | Introducing Lacan PDF eBook |
Author | Darian Leader |
Publisher | Icon Books Ltd |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2014-12-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1848318790 |
Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through his innovations, including his work on paranoia, his addition of structural linguistics to Freudianism and his ideas on the infant 'mirror phase'. It also traces Lacan's influence in postmodern critical thinking on art, literature, philosophy and feminism. This is the ideal introduction for anyone intrigued by Lacan's ideas but discouraged by the complexity of his writings.
Looking Awry
Title | Looking Awry PDF eBook |
Author | Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 1992-09-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780262740159 |
Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan
Title | Introduction to the Reading of Lacan PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Dor |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2013-03-26 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1590516613 |
About this Book... "A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth." -Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School
The Works of Jacques Lacan
Title | The Works of Jacques Lacan PDF eBook |
Author | Bice Benvenuto |
Publisher | Free Association Books |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 1986-01 |
Genre | Imagery (Psychology) |
ISBN | 9780946960217 |
An introduction to the works of the French psychoanalyst and thinker. An account is given of Lacan's thought, explaining its relevance both inside and outside psychoanalysis.
Jacques Lacan
Title | Jacques Lacan PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Grosz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134981082 |
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.
Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety
Title | Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Harari |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2013-03-26 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1590516559 |
Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.
Lacan
Title | Lacan PDF eBook |
Author | Lionel Bailly |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1780741626 |
Lacan without the jargon! Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that the structure of unconscious is like a language. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for adopting mathematical concepts in his psychoanalytic framework and for advocating therapy sessions of varying length, he is widely misunderstood and often unfairly dismissed as impenetrable. In this clear, wide-ranging primer, Lionel Bailly demonstrates how Lacan's ideas are still vitally relevant to contemporary issues of mental health treatment. Defending Lacan from his numerous detractors, past and present, Bailly guides the reader through Lacan's canon, from l'objet petit a to The Mirror Stage and beyond. Including coverage of developments in Lacanian psychoanalysis since his death, this is the perfect introduction to the great modern theorist.