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11. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

    The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

    By Jacques Lacan

    Series: Routledge Classics

    A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. He gained his reputation as a lecturer, disseminating his ideas to audiences that...

    Published September 2nd 2007 by Routledge
12. Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

    Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

    By Dany Nobus, Malcolm Quinn

    Why is stupidity sublime? What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics? Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework,...

    Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge
13. Having A Life

    Self Pathology after Lacan

    By Lewis A. Kirshner

    What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain patients and, indeed, in most of us at especially difficult times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After...

    Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
14. Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis

    By Dany Nobus

    Series: Makers of Modern Psychotherapy

    Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis paints a completely new picture of the man and his ideas. The book suceeds in showing how ideas can become more accessible, and re-evaluates his significance within the field of psychodynamic psychotherapy.The book is structured thematically...

    Published August 23rd 2000 by Routledge
15. An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

    By Dylan Evans

    Jacques Lacan's thinking revolutionised the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and had a major impact in fields as diverse as film studies, literary criticism, feminist theory and philosophy. Yet his writings are notorious for their complexity and idiosyncratic style. Emphasising the clinical...

    Published May 1st 1996 by Routledge
16. Jacques Lacan

    A Feminist Introduction

    By Elizabeth Grosz

    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....

    Published August 1st 1990 by Routledge
17. Jacques Lacan

    2nd Edition

    By Anika Lemaire

    The work of Jaques Lacan, eminent French psychoanalyst and influential thinker (1901-1981), is recognized as being of vital importance to psychoanalysts, philosophers, and all those concerned with the the study of man and language. Its value is not limited to the field of psychoanalysis alone, but...

    Published October 3rd 1979 by Routledge