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  • Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason

    Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice

    by Dany Nobus ...
    Series series The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
    The highly arcane "wisdom" produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable nonsense by his equally countless detractors. Contrary to these common, strictly antagonistic yet uniformly uncritical practices, this book offers a meticulous critique of some key theoretical and ... Read more

    Was $46.99 USD Now $39.99 USD

  • Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

    Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology

    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, Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn question the basic assumption that knowledge is universally good and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

    by Dany Nobus ...
    "By detailing the constitutive incompletion of the Lacanian project, the contributors have guaranteed the success of their book, which will remain a major reference for a long time to come."-Joan Copjec ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan

    On the Blazing Sublime

    This groundbreaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung–Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime held at Cambridge, England, against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War. It provides a fascinating range of in-depth psychological perspectives on aspects of creativity and destruction inherent in the monstrous, awe-inspiring sublime.The chapters include ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Law of Desire

    On Lacan’s 'Kant with Sade’

    by Dany Nobus ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will find a detailed roadmap for each section of the essay, including clarifications of the allusions, implicit borrowings and references in Lacan’s text, unique insights into the essay’s publication history, and a critical ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Perversion

    Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis

    Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory - perspectives on its aetiology, development ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

    by Dany Nobus ...
    In this classic work, eight crucial Lacanian ideas are explained through detailed exploration of the theoretical and/or practical context in which Lacan introduced them, the way in which they developed throughout his works, and the questions they were designed to answer. The book does not presuppose any familiarity with Lacanian theory on the part of the reader, nor a prior acquaintance with Lacan ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis

    by Dany Nobus ...
    Series 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 around five key issues: diagnosis, the analyst's position during the treatment, the management of ... Read more

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  • Jacques Lacan

    by Sean Homer ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

    Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain ... Read more

    Was $39.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Jacques Lacan

    A Feminist Introduction

    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. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Having A Life

    Self Pathology after Lacan

    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 Lacan, Lewis Kirshner takes this Lacanian question as the point of departure for a thoughtful ... Read more

    $52.99 USD