The informal tone of these ten lectures by Roberto Harari reflects their original character as classes held at El Centro de Extension Psicoanalitica del Centro Cultural General, San Martin Buenos Aires. Destined for a wider audience than just the psychoanalytical camp, Harari's work presents the Lacanian endeavor without presupposition of specialized knowledge—and yet without c...(展开全部)

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (French: Les quatres concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse) is the English translation of one of the pivotal works of Jacques Lacan. The blurb describes the book as providing "illuminating insights into the mind of the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud". The 1994 edition contains an introduction by David Macey. Le sé...(展开全部)

This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based," namely, the unconscious, repetition, the tran...(展开全部)

This book provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either French or English on Lacan's most important seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. The 16 contributors unpack Lacan's notoriously difficult work in simple terms, and supply elegant illustrations from a variety of fields: psychoanalytic treatment, film, literature, art, and so on. Each...(展开全部)

Synopsis This book on key Lacanian concepts is intended to help non-psychoanalytic scholars and students, as well as psychoanalysts and specialists. It presents discussions of how the concepts were created, developed and operationalised. Topics covered include "jouissance", "the subject", and "the Borromean knot". 240 pages. Description “An introduction to Lacanian theory and p...(展开全部)

Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.

This standard introduction to psycho-analysis has been thoroughly revised to clarify and refine the concepts presented, and two new chapters have been added. Comprehensive and lucid, Dr. Brenner's volume is the indispensable orientation to the subject for both laymen and students.

First published in German in 1938 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics includes an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behaviour, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. This work, the text of...(展开全部)

Jacques Lacan's thinking revolutionized the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and had a major impact in fields as diverse as film studies, literary criticism, feminist theory and philosophy. Yet his writings are notorious for their complexity and idiosyncratic style. Emphasizing the clinical basis of Lacan's work, An Introductionary Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysi...(展开全部)