Lacan

by VANIER, ALAIN

• ISBN13: 9781892746504
• ISBN10: 1892746506
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-17
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

This concise study offers a clear and informed reassessment of Lacan's ideas and how they revolutionized psychoanalysis. Specialists and newcomers alike will appreciate this examination of a complex figure who was by turns a master, a charlatan and a surrealist artist.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Chronology	xvii
Introduction	xxi
Milestones	1	(16)
1953: Break With The International and Introduction of New Concepts	1	(11)
The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real	2	(4)
The Rome Discourse	6	(6)
Biographical Elements and Early Writings	12	(5)
The Imaginary	17	(18)
The Optical Model of The Ideals of the Person	21	(8)
Ego Ideal and Ideal Ego	29	(6)
The Symbolic	35	(16)
The Subject	37	(2)
Language and Speech	39	(3)
The Signifier	42	(2)
The Father	44	(7)
The Real	51	(34)
Objet A	52	(6)
Movements of the Object	58	(7)
Sexuation	65	(8)
The Borromean Knot	73	(4)
The Father in Question	77	(8)
In Addition	85	(8)
References	93	(6)
Index	99