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By: Joseph H. Smith
Price: $5.98
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London: August 1983
Seller ID: 120767
ISBN: 0300039352
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
To assimilate a writer as allusive as Lacan is to enter into an entire culture. However firm their grounding in Freud, readers of Lacan must learn to rethink psychoanalysis with a speculative breadth sometimes exceeding that of Freud himself. This book, designed to clarify the works of a controversial and influential figure, is the first collection of critical essays to appear in English since Lacan's own writings began to be widely distributed in translation.
Drawing on psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and clinical and theoretical psychiatry, this volume explores t...
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By: Ruth Golan
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Publisher: Karnac Books: May 2006
Seller ID: 98606
ISBN: 1855753790
Binding: Trade Paperback
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Publisher: State University of New York Press: July 2002
Seller ID: 293115
ISBN: 0791454320
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: December 1997
Seller ID: 293114
ISBN: 0801858178
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Jacques Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications not only for the analytic movement but also for contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. Lacan held that if the unconscious, as Freud described it, exists, it functions linguistically, rather than symbolically or instinctually. He refers to the unconscious as a language: "the discourse of the Other." In The Language of the Self Lacan offers a significant and fertile return to the heart of the Freudian texts.
Originally published in paperback under the title Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis,...
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By: Lacan, Jacques
Price: $16.98
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: July 1997
Seller ID: 293117
ISBN: 0393316130
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good