The Lacan Tradition

The Lacan Tradition
ISBN-10
0429866364
ISBN-13
9780429866364
Category
Psychology
Pages
591
Language
English
Published
2018-04-09
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Lionel Bailly, David Lichtenstein, Sharmini Bailly

Description

The Lacanian Tradition is unique among psychoanalytic schools in its influence upon academic fields such as literature, philosophy, cultural and critical studies. This book aims to make Lacan's ideas accessible and relevant also to mainstream psychoanalysts, and to showcase developments in Lacanian thinking since his death in 1981. The volume highlights the clinical usefulness of such concepts as the paternal metaphor, the formula of fantasy, psychic structure, the central role of desire and the interlinking of the individual subject in the matrix of the Other. While these themes are woven through all the papers, each is a highly individual reflection upon some aspect of Lacanian theory, practice or history.

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