Tag: Psychoanalysis
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Beckett, Lacan, and the Gaze
The book advances the claim that Beckett’s visual universe can be described neither through a general theory of “modernist perception” nor through a simple psychoanalytic allegory of seeing, but only by reconstructing the specific way in which the gaze functions as an impersonal, structuring dimension where subject and world fail to meet. In forming a…
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Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice
Brown’s Beckett, Lacan and the Voice stakes its claim on a very precise terrain: it proposes that Beckett’s entire œuvre can be re-read if one takes seriously the Lacanian thesis that the voice is a specific psychoanalytic object—neither pure sound nor mere vehicle of meaning, but the residue of language that both grounds and unravels…
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Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language stakes its claim by demonstrating, with didactic patience and analytic precision, how Lacan’s structural re-founding of psychoanalysis can be reconstructed from within the field that grounds it: the speaking subject’s formations of the unconscious as they are anchored in language and staged in…
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Lacan and Other Heresies: Lacanian Pscyhoanalytical Writings
The volume’s distinctive contribution lies in its rigorous effort to reinscribe Lacanian psychoanalysis within a living practice of collective invention, rather than a doctrine of settled theses. Framed by the Freudian School of Melbourne’s long experiment with institutional forms proper to psychoanalysis and catalyzed by the Melbourne seminars of the Belgian analyst Christian Fierens, the…
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Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society
The volume stakes a precise claim: by reconstructing Lacan’s concept of discourse across clinical, social, and cultural registers, it offers a model in which language and what exceeds language are locked in a structured reciprocity—so that subjects are formed in discourse and yet sustain modalities of resistance through it. The distinctive contribution lies in formalizing…
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‘The Psychology of Love’ by Sigmund Freud
The Psychology of Love gathers, in a single, carefully sequenced volume, Freud’s principal inquiries into how erotic life is constituted by fantasy, conflict, and the vicissitudes of development. Its scholarly stake lies in showing—with clinical and metapsychological precision—that human sexuality is always already symbolically mediated, that desire is organized by scenes and substitutions rather than…
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The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
Marco Máximo Balzarini’s The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud isolates with unusual precision the point at which two powerful explanatory regimes—neurobiological description and psychoanalytic articulation—cease to translate into one another and nevertheless cannot stop addressing the same phenomena. Its distinctive contribution is to formalize that impasse as a productive constraint on…
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The Seminars of Jacques Lacan
The Seminars of Jacques Lacan are an organized experiment in epistemic restraint and conceptual invention, a multi-decadal laboratory where psychoanalysis is made to answer for its own concepts by submitting them to the exigencies of speech, structure, and act. Their distinctive contribution is a method for holding the Freudian field at the point of maximal…
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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud is a scholarly instrument designed to recalibrate access to Freud’s corpus by bringing the textual surface, the editorial scaffolding, and the translation choices into a single evidential field. Its distinctive contribution is to render visible, and therefore testable, the minute places where Freud’s…
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The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings
Sarah Kofman’s The Enigma of Woman: Woman in Freud’s Writings is a disciplined reconstruction and a deliberately disconcerting defamiliarization of Freud’s scattered and chronologically asymmetrical reflections on “femininity.” It proceeds by accepting Freud’s declared interest in observation, method, and conceptual economy while patiently exposing the inner duplicities of those same appeals whenever they function as…
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Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume Three: Freud, Alder, and Jung
Walter Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind (Volume Three: Freud, Adler, and Jung) is the monumental culmination of his decades-long intellectual engagement with the traditions of Germanic thought, psychology, and philosophy. Completed just before his untimely death in 1980, this third and final instalment of Kaufmann’s trilogy solidifies his position as one of the most discerning critics…
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Mourning Freud
Madelon Sprengnether’s Mourning Freud is a penetrating exposition of the dynamics between Freud’s personal experiences of mourning and the evolution of psychoanalytic theory throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This richly textured work unravels the psychological, biographical, and cultural dimensions of Freud’s life, situating his struggles with loss at the nexus of his theoretical framework,…
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‘Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis’ by Sigmund Freud
Few works in the field of psychology have endured with as much intellectual consequence, as much capacity to provoke thought and reflection, and as much historical gravitas as Sigmund Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. The present edition, translated by G. Stanley Hall, is not merely a straightforward rendering of Freud’s original German text, but as…
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Lacan and Language: A Reader’s Guide to Écrits
This book stands as an extraordinarily rigorous and lucidly subtle instrument designed to guide any serious reader through the labyrinthine terrain that constitutes Jacques Lacan’s Écrits. Its authors, John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, address themselves to a daunting intellectual challenge: to bring into focus a complex variety of thought in which Jacques Lacan’s…
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Psychoanalysis after Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition
In Psychoanalysis After Freud: Memory, Mourning and Repetition, Judy Gammelgaard undertakes a deeply philosophical exploration of the lingering significance, as well as the profound transformations, of Freud’s psychoanalytic project in the aftermath of his momentous discoveries. Drawing on several of Freud’s lesser-known works, Gammelgaard positions herself at a contemporary interpretive vantage point from which she…
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Freud’s Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body
Freud’s Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body by Rob White is an extraordinary and challenging intellectual venture into the most recalcitrant territories of Freudian theory, a work that refashions our understanding not only of Freud’s controversial notion of inherited memory but also of the deep melancholic undertow that runs through his entire conceptual edifice.…
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Lacan and the Limits of Language
Lacan and the Limits of Language by Charles Shepherdson is an extraordinarily rigorous analysis of the intersection of psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and the life sciences, a painstakingly elaborate exploration that refuses the comfort of established disciplinary boundaries and invites the reader to confront, with fearless intellectual candor, the fundamental questions that arise when language meets…
Simon Gros 