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Interpreting LACAN (Psychiatry and the Humanities)

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 the full range of ...
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Jacques Lacan: The French Context

By: Marcelle Marini

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr: December 1992

Seller ID: 98605

ISBN: 0813518520

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Loving Psychoanalysis: Looking at Culture with Freud and Lacan

By: Ruth Golan

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Karnac Books: May 2006

Seller ID: 98606

ISBN: 1855753790

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Psychoanalysis neither developed from philosophy nor did it come into being in a university psychoanalysis was born in the clinic. It was hysterical women who taught Freud. Their accounts of their pain, anxieties, and the physical symptoms they presented led him to formulate his theories about the existence of the unconscious.Psychoanalysis is neither a theory nor a way of seeing life. It is a form of ethics unlike any other form of ethics the subject's way of relating to the world. However, there is no doubt that it owes its existence to science. It could perhaps be termed the science of the ...
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Transcribing Lacan's Seminars: Memoirs of a Disgruntled Keybasher Tunned Psychoanalyst

By: Angela M. Brewer

Price: $16.98

Publisher: Free Association Books: April 2006

Seller ID: 98604

ISBN: 1853439630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Author Marie Pierrakos began her working career as a freelance conference steno-typist, and it was in this capacity that she was Jacques Lacan's steno-typist ( keybasher ) from 1967 to 1979. Awarding him a gold medal for boorishness Lacan did not speak a word to her in those twelve years it was only after she became a psychoanalyst herself that Pierrakos felt adequately equipped to explore and write about this experience in depth. Her careful but excoriating criticism of the Lacanian system will be of interest to all readers wishing to understand more about one of the most curious phenomena of...
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