Lacan Books

New and Published Books

1. The Surface Effect

   The Screen of Fantasy in Psychoanalysis

   By André Nusselder

   Even before we think, we use fantasy. Is fantasy the ‘mother of all media’? Does fantasy save me from myself? Are there fictions that are real? In The Surface Effect André Nusselder examines the space of fantasy between individual ‘inner life’ and social ‘outer life’. Where we assume that fantasy...

   Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Heart of Man’s Destiny

   Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Early Reformation Thought

   By Herman Westerink

   Series: Psychoanalytic Explorations

   Can Luther's writings inform us on the fundamental questions of Freudian psychoanalysis? Does an intellectual filiation between early Reformation thought and psychoanalysis exist? Does Lacanian psychoanalysis offer an instrument for analysing theological writings? In The Heart of Man's Destiny,...

   Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Social Identity in Question

   Construction, Subjectivity and Critique

   By Parisa Dashtipour

   Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

   Social identity theory is one of the most influential approaches to identity, group processes, intergroup relations and social change. This book draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Lacanian social theorists to investigate and rework the predominant concepts in the social identity framework....

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Perversion

   A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject

   By Stephanie S. Swales

   Lacan's psychoanalytic take on what makes a pervert perverse is not the fact of habitually engaging in specific "abnormal" or transgressive sexual acts, but of occupying a particular structural position in relation to the Other. Perversion is one of Lacan's three main ontological diagnostic...

   Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Emptiness of Oedipus

   Identification and Non-Identification in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

   By Raul Moncayo

   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,...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. Lacanian Psychotherapy

   Theory and Practical Applications

   By Michael J. Miller

   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...

   Published May 12th 2011 by Routledge
7. Between Winnicott and Lacan

   A Clinical Engagement

   Edited by Lewis A. Kirshner

   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...

   Published February 16th 2011 by Routledge
8. Lacanian Psychoanalysis

   Revolutions in Subjectivity

   By Ian Parker

   Series: Advancing Theory in Therapy

   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...

   Published July 8th 2010 by Routledge
9. Please Select Your Gender

   From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism

   By Patricia Gherovici

   "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...

   Published January 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. Enjoy Your Symptom!

    Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

    By Slavoj Zizek

    Series: Routledge Classics

    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...

    Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge