Books by Serge Leclaire

The author, one of the first practicing psychoanalysts to join Lacan's school, here offers a lucid exposition of the psychoanalysis that has emerged from the French "return to Freud," analyzing the often enigmatic pronouncements of Lacan and working through the central tenets of the "Ecole freudienne."

The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents-the projection of the child our parents wanted.