The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Jacques 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 a time when it faced certain intellectual decline. Focusing on key terms in Lacan's often difficult, idiosyncratic development of psychoanalysis, this volume brings new perspectives to the work of an intimidating influential thinker. Lacan's Turn To Freud / Jean-michel Rabaté -- Mirror Stage : An Obliterated Archive / Elisabeth Roudinesco -- Lacan's Myths / Darian Leader -- Lacan's Science Of The Subject : Between Linguistics And Topology / Dany Nobus -- From The Letter To The Matheme : Lancan's Scientific Methods / Bernard Burgoyne -- Paradoxes Of The Symptom In Psychoanalysis / Colette Soler -- Desire And Jouissance In The Teachings Of Lacan / Néstor Braunstein -- Lacan And Philosophy / Charles Shepherdson. Lacan's Marxism, Marxism's Lacan (from Ẑiẑek To Althusser) / Joe Valente -- Ethics And Tragedy In Lacan / Alenka Zupanĉiĉ -- Lacanian Approach To The Logic Of Perversion / Judith Feher-gurewich -- What Is A Lacanian Clinic? / Diana Rabinovich -- Beyond The Phallus : Lacan And Feminism / Deborah Luepnitz -- Lacan And Queer Theory / Tim Dean -- Lacan's Afterlife : Jacques Lacan Meets Andy Warhol / Catherine Liu. Edited By Jean-michel Rabaté. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 272-281) And Index. 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 This collection of specially commissioned essays explores key dimensions of Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. This Companion focuses on key terms in Lacan's work and will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to a formidable and influential thinker In a collection of specially commissioned essays, academics and practising psychoanalysts explore key dimensions of Lacan's life and works. The chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike