A collection of essays and pensees from a noted psychoanalyst and Lacanian thinker

Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades’s…

Presents a fresh theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. This work explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal forces once…

Against Understanding, Volume 1 focuses on theoretical and clinical views on love, sexuality, and the challenges of Lacan in practice.

Quintessentially fascinating, love intrigues and perplexes us, and drives much of what we do in life. As wary as we may be of its illusions and disappointments, many of us…

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one’s father is isn’t immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and…

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…

Affect is a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis, but there has long been a misperception that Lacan neglected affect in his writings. We encounter affect at the beginning of any analysis…