What Does a Woman Want? (Lacanian Clinical Field) - Softcover

Andre, Serge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189274628X ISBN 13: 9781892746283

Publisher: Other Press, 1999

Synopsis

Freud's question is at the root of his discoveries about the unconscious. Serge André says that a woman wants the truth, and, in this subtle and highly original comparison of Freud and Lacan, he explains why.

About this title

About the Author:

Serge Andres

Serge Andres, a psychoanalyst in Brussels, Belgium since 1975, has written more than one hundred articles. In addition to this book, he is also the author of The Perverse Imposture (Le Imposture Perverse, 1993), already translated into Spanish and Portuguese and forthcoming in English in 2003 from 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 volume, a written version of a seminar given in French by the author in 1982-1983, discusses the evolution of Freud's thinking on feminine sexuality, providing in the process a clinical illustration of Lacanian theory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

About this edition

• Publisher: Other Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 189274628X
• ISBN 13: 9781892746283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380