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Jacques Lacan

Jonathan Scott Lee

University of Massachusetts Press, 1991

Originally published as part of Twayne's World Authors Series, Jacques Lacan offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the life and work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, one of the most influential and challenging thinkers of the twentieth century. Written by a philosopher with a deep engagement in both continental philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, Jonathan Scott Lee traces the development of Lacan's theoretical project from his early psychiatric writings through the landmark Écrits and the renowned seminars that Lacan delivered over more than two decades.

Lee's approach is distinctive in its philosophical clarity, making complex Lacanian ideas available to readers in the humanities and social sciences. His careful analysis of the mirror stage, the role of the Other, and Lacan's three fundamental registers—the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real— provides new insight into the ways they structure human subjectivity, language, and desire. This book situates Lacan within the broader intellectual currents of twentieth-century French thought, drawing connections to structuralism, post-structuralism, and the philosophical traditions that shaped and were shaped by Lacan's radical "return to Freud."

Widely cited in scholarly literature across disciplines, including literary criticism, philosophy, theology, film studies, and cultural theory, Jacques Lacan remains a valued introduction for students, scholars, and general readers seeking a careful and comprehensive guide to one of the most formidable intellectual figures of the modern era.

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Jacques Lacan & Co

A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985

Elisabeth Roudinesco

University of Chicago Press, 1990

"Roudinesco provides a finely drawn map of the intellectual debates within French psychoanalysis, especially under the influence of the German emigrés during the 1930s and 1940s. She is a good historian, in that she provides not only a narrative history but also extensive passages from Lacan's own oral-history interviews with the various figures, so that we have not only her commentary but some flavor of the original documentation. Many of the quotes are gems."—Sander I. Gilman, Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Reflections on Seminar XVII, sic vi

Justin Clemens and Russell Grigg, eds.

Duke University Press, 2006

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues. Collecting important analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology is at once an introduction, critique, and extension of Lacan’s influential ideas.

The contributors examine Lacan’s theory of the four discourses, his critique of the Oedipus complex and the superego, the role of primal affects in political life, and his prophetic grasp of twenty-first-century developments. They take up these issues in detail, illuminating the Lacanian concepts with in-depth discussions of shame and guilt, literature and intimacy, femininity, perversion, authority and revolt, and the discourse of marketing and political rhetoric. Topics of more specific psychoanalytic interest include the role of objet a, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the status of knowledge, and the relation between psychoanalytic practices and the modern university.

Contributors. Geoff Boucher, Marie-Hélène Brousse, Justin Clemens, Mladen Dolar, Oliver Feltham, Russell Grigg, Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Dominique Hecq, Dominiek Hoens, Éric Laurent, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Jacques-Alain Miller, Ellie Ragland, Matthew Sharpe, Paul Verhaeghe, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupancic

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Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Ellie Ragland-Sullivan

University of Illinois Press, 1986

This volume is the first clear and comprehensive critical analysis of Jacques Lacan's thought for the English-speaking world.  With Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Psychoanalysis Ellie Ragland-Sullivan not only fills that gap but also provides the foundation upon which all future studies of Lacan must build. Working principally from the legendary but seldom-analyzed Seminars, Ragland-Sullivan clarifies and synthesizes Lacan's major concepts.  Using empirical data as well as Lacan's texts, she demonstrates how Lacan's teachings constitute a new epistemology that goes far beyond conventional thinking in psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.
 
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Jacques Lacan

A Critical Introduction

Martin Murray

Pluto Press, 2016

 
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has been a major influence on a wide range of twentieth-century thought, even as the breadth, complexity, and obscurity of his work has intimidated students and deterred casual readers. That situation hasn’t been helped by uneven translations into English that have led to a popular conception of his intellectual enterprise that can at times be profoundly mistaken.
 
In this brief, clearly written introduction to Lacan and his work, Martin Murray presents an up-to-date survey of his key concepts, their development, and their influence on fields such as anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy. Arguing strongly that we should move beyond the traditional focus on Lacan’s early work, which favored a linguistic approach, Murray offers instead a more comprehensive overview of the whole arc of Lacan’s thought. The result is a rigorous, yet accessible, account of one of the key intellectual figures of the twentieth century.
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Jacques Lacan

The French Context

Marini, Marcelle

Rutgers University Press, 1993

Although many books have been published on Jacques Lacan that attem0pt to explain his work and to provide insights into the relationship between his work and his life, most of them depend largely on the small number of texts that were published in his lifetime. Unlike Freud, however, Lacan expressed his ideas not through voluminous writings and carefully considered case studies, but through his lectures. He was a volatile figure on the French psychoanalytic scene; his feuds and friendships and ever-changing professional alliances go a long way toward explaining his views. JACQUERS LACAN, published to great acclaim in France in 1986, has now been translated into English. It is the first look at Lacan and his work from within the French context. Marcelle Marini, a knowledgeable insider, presents Lacan in two parts. The first part focuses on the actual situation of psychoanalysis in France, attempting to efine the impact of Lacan on it and its effect on him, his life, and work since 1926. Marini describes scandals and battles, as well as material on Lacan's original concepts and major theories. In the second half of the book Marini provides a full chronological, biographical, and bibliographical dossier - year by year - of the progress of Lacan's work. Lacan's lectures are given proper attention, extending our view far beyond the written texts. JACQUES LACAN is indispensable reading for anyone who truly wants to understand the man and his work.

 
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