Forthcoming Lacan Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Against Understanding, Volume 1

   Commentary and critique in a Lacanian key

   By Bruce Fink

   Against Understanding, Volume 1, explores how the process of understanding (which can be seen to be part and parcel of the Lacanian dimension of the imaginary) reduces the unfamiliar to the familiar, transforms the radically other into the same, and renders practitioners deaf to what is actually...

   To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film

   By Agnieszka Piotrowska

   This distinctively interdisciplinary approach to the subject encompasses filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and offers a unique insight into documentary film practice from a psychoanalytic perspective. At the heart of the enquiry is belief that ‘transference-love’ is present...

   To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy

   Edited by Ian Parker, David Pavón-Cuéllar

   Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a range of different texts. The...

   To Be Published October 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. Against Understanding, Volume 2

   Cases and commentary in a Lacanian key

   By Bruce Fink

   Against Understanding, Volume 2, casts a spotlight on the status of case studies in psychoanalysis, which are commonly used to illustrate clinicians’ expertise and mastery rather than patients’ actual itineraries. When a case is presented, the complex, unwieldy, and often self-contradictory...

   To Be Published October 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. An Introduction to Electronic Art Through the Teaching of Jacques Lacan: Strangest Thing

   By David Schwarz

   Electronic art offers endless opportunities for reflection and interpretation. Some works are either interactive or entirely autonomous, and the viewer's perception and reaction to them may be challenged by constantly transforming images. Whether the transformations are a product of the appearances...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Psychology After the Crisis

   Scientific Paradigms and Political Debate

   By Ian Parker

   Series: Psychology After Critique

   The book includes a clear account of the paradigm ‘crisis’ in psychology in the early 1970s, and the different varieties of qualitative research that are at work inside and outside the discipline of psychology now. It explores a series of concepts and methodological approaches, and shows how...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
7. Psychology after Psychoanalysis

   Psychosocial Studies and Beyond

   By Ian Parker

   Series: Psychology After Critique

   Why is psychoanalysis now re-emerging as a sub-discipline inside psychology? What is the value of using psychoanalytic ideas to develop psychosocial research? How does psychoanalysis tackle the relation between the individual and society? This volume includes a clear account of psychoanalysis, and...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
8. Psychology after the Unconscious

   From Freud to Lacan

   By Ian Parker

   Series: Psychology After Critique

   What is the role of ‘representation’ in Freud’s concept of the unconscious? What are the implications for our understanding of language in the clinic? How does Lacan radicalise this ‘unconscious’ in relation to cultural research? Psychoanalysis discovers and describes a domain of mental activity...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
9. Psychology after Lacan

   Connecting the Clinic and Research

   By Ian Parker

   Series: Psychology After Critique

   Why is Lacanian psychoanalysis now appearing in psychology? What innovative account does it offer of the human subject? What are the implications for psychology as a separate discipline? This volujme reviews the significance of Jacques Lacan’s work for a new generation of psychologists, and...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
10. Ethics and Psychology

    Beyond Codes of Practice

    By Calum Neill

    Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

    To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Psychology Press