Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language (The Lacanian Clinical Field) - Softcover

Dor, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765700204 ISBN 13: 9780765700209

Publisher: Other Press LLC, 1997

Synopsis

A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts-among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject-are developed in depth-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School

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About the Author

Joel Dor Joel Dor was a professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VII and a member of the Association de Formation Psychoanalytique et de Recherches Freudiennes: Espace Analytique. He is also the author of Introduction to the Reading of Lacan and Structure and Perversions (both Other Press). Susan Fairfield Susan Fairfield is an editor, translator, and poet. She is also the author of papers on literary criticism, a psychoanalyst, and co-editor of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis. She lives in the Bay Area of California.

Synopsis

This text seeks to make Lacan's work understandable for both clinicians eager to figure out Lacan's theory and scholars in the various human sciences, upon which Lacan's work draws. The book probes the link between structuralism and linguistic theory, clarifying Lacan's famous formulation that the unconscious is structured like a language. It further provides the necessary theoretical grounding for the clinical application of Lacanian theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Other Press LLC
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765700204
• ISBN 13: 9780765700209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Gurewich Judith Feher