Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality. This item is unavailable.Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality

The essays clarify basic concepts, but for readers already familiar with Lacan they also offer sophisticated workings-through of the more challenging and obscure arguments in Encore--both by tracing their historical development across Lacan's oeuvre and by demonstrating their relation to particular philosophical, theological, mathematical, and scientific concepts. They cover much of the terrain necessary for understanding sexual difference--not in terms of chromosomes, body parts, choice of sexual partner, or varieties of sexual practice--but in terms of one's position vis-à-vis the Other and the kind of jouissance one is able to obtain. In so doing, they make significant interventions in the debates regarding sex, gender, and sexuality in feminist theory, philosophy, queer theory, and cultural studies.

Suzanne Barnard is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, a clinical psychologist, and an experimental media artist. Bruce Fink is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and a Lacanian psychoanalyst. He is the author of several books on Lacan, and coeditor (with Richard Feldstein and Maire Jaanus) of Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud, both published by SUNY Press. He has also translated Lacan's Seminar XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality.