The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

This collection of specially commissioned essays, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Lacan's life and works.

Jean-Michel Rabaté (Edited by)

9780521002035, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 July 2003

320 pages
23.1 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg

"Superb... this book shoud appeal to anyone interested in the development of Freudian thought and the history of ideas concerning human subjectivity. Highly recommended." Choice

This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

Chronology
1. Lacan's turns to Freud Jean-Michel Rabaté
2. The mirror-stage: an obliterated archive Elisabeth Roudinesco
3. Lacan's myths Darian Leader
4. Lacan's science of the subject: between linguistics and topology Danny Nobus
5. From the letter to the matheme: Lacan's scientific models Bernard Burgoyne
6. The paradoxes of the symptom in psychoanalysis Colette Soler
7. Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan Nestor Braunstein
8. Lacan and philosophy Charles Shepherdson
9. Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Zizek to Althusser) Joe Valente
10. Ethics and tragedy in Lacan Alenka Zupancic
11. A Lacanian approach to the logic of perversion Judith Feher-Gurewich
12. What is a Lacanian clinic? Diana Rabinovitch
13. Beyond the phallus: Lacan and feminism Deborah Luepnitz
14. Lacan and queer theory Tim Dean
15. Lacan's afterlife: Jacques Lacan meets Andy Warhol Catherine Liu
Further Reading.

Subject Areas: Psychological theory & schools of thought [JMA], History of Western philosophy [HPC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]