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Does the Woman Exist?: From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine

by Paul Verhaeghe & Marc Du Ry

This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties...

Beyond Gender: From Suject to Drive

by Paul Verhaeghe

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian...

The Fifty-Minute Hour

by Robert Lindner & Jonathan Lear

“A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the...

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language

by Joel Dor

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"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...

Clinical Lacan

by Joel Dor

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This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich...

History Beyond Trauma

by Francoise Davoine, Jean-Max Gaudilliere & Susan Fairfield

In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference...

How James Joyce Made his Name: A Reading of the Final Lacan

by Roberto Harari & Luke Thurston

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.

Lacan's seminar measures...

Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety: An Introduction

by Roberto Harari & Charles Shepherdson

Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's...

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis

by Moustafa Safouan

In this delightfully readable and clearly written volume, the world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon...

Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients

by Owen Renik

A clear and readable how-to manual for results-oriented psychoanalysis.

By now, the term "practical psychoanalysis" has become an oxymoron. The way psychoanalytic treatment is generally conducted is extremely...

Gene Worship: Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender

by Gisela Kaplan

"A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology,...