Books in the The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library CFAR series

Cottet's book, first published in 1982 and revised in 1996, is a classic of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It is not only a scholarly study of Freud and Lacan, but a thought-provoking introduction to the key issues of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? This study shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss.

Cottet's book, first published in 1982 and revised in 1996, is a classic of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It is not only a scholarly study of Freud and Lacan, but a thought-provoking introduction to the key issues of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

How does one become a man or a woman? Psychoanalysis shows that this is never an easy task and that each of us tackles it in our own, unique way. In this study, the author focuses on what analytic work with psychotic subjects can teach us about the different solutions human beings can construct to the question of sexual identity.

Originally published in French as: La loi de la maere: Essai sur le sinthome sexuel.

"Lacan, lecteur de Joyce by Colette SOLER A Presses Universitaires de France. Translated by Devra Simiu" -- Verso title page.

Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? This study shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss.

Explores the many attempts that analysts have made to think through the problems of psychoanalytic training. Moving from Freud and his first students through to Lacan and his invention of the 'pass', this book charts the changing conceptions of psychoanalytic training.

Drawing on literature, philosophy and a range of psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, the author addresses the effects of psychoanalysis on the individual who has the desire and the courage to enter an analytic treatment and take it to its endpoint.

This volume of essays elaborates and deepen research into the question of obsession, going beyond the usual cliches which reduce obsession to the question 'Am I alive or dead?', and providing rigorous discussion of some of the following themes.

Translation of: Naaitre praematurae: le baebae, son maedecin et son psychanalyste.