Books by Jacques Lacan

"Fink's precise new translation makes this pivotal period in Lacan's thought more accessible to English speakers."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

Jacques Lacan's writings, and the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a radical reappraisal of the work of Freud. Focusing on psychological concepts developed by Freud, Lacan argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on a number of related topics.

"'I've been talking to brick walls,' says Lacan, meaning: 'Neither to you, nor to the Big Other. I'm speaking by myself. And this is precisely what interests you. It's up to you to interpret me. ' These brick walls are those of the chapel at Sainte-Anne hospital.

When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet.

Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy.

"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to bring them around to psychoanalysis.

Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather its imminence.

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said, "The Name-of-the-Father creates the function of the father.

Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades desire agalma, the good object. I would go even further.

During the third year of his famous seminar, Jaques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis. He focuses on grappling with the distinctions between neuroses and the psychoses and erects a structure for psychosis.

Jacques Lacan is one of the important thinkers of the 20th century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. This work is a transcript of his important lecture series. It includes readings of Sophocles' "Antigone" and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality.

Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.

A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Societe Francaise de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.

Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence on contemporary thought and culture.

In his famous lecture, Jacques Lacan re-examines the work of Freud and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics.

A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge.