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Lacanian Ink 31 - Sacrosanct Depression
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2008

In our Politically Correct times, it is fashionable to discern homosexuality in the musical texture of some classic composers and thus redeem them - there are, for example, totally unconvincing and ridiculous readings of Schubert: he must have been gay, because his music is non-aggressive/penetrative/phallic, full of soft passages... In the case of Eugene Onegin, however, we stand on a much more firm ground. In the Fall of 1876 Tchaikovsky ...

Freud's Papers on Technique (Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 1)

1 review
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1988

Lacan can be easy...If you read the man yourself!
If you want to read Lacan, forget all the confusing introductions by people like Zizek, Gallup et al. And absolutely don't bother with "Ecrits"--they're dense rewritings of earlier speeches. Instead, begin where it all began...the seminars, Paris, the 1950s. A who's-who of Paris intelligentia are here to listen to the new kid on the block with an intriguing new back-to-basic reading of Freud. ...

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II : The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis ...

1 review
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

where's the letter?
one of the first luminaries, and not the first, lacan mentions here is socrates, father, i suppose, of the dialectic. this seminar is marked by participation, which lacan insists upon, everyone present must participate with questions. here those in attendance get a feel for things psychoanalytic. discussed is poe's purloined letter. and discussed is the lacanic triad: the symbolic, the real, ...

Clear Like Day Letter for the twenty years since the death of Jacques Lacan
Jacques-Alain Miller

Wooster Pr, 2001

I met Lacan in January 1964. Lacan appeared to me luxurious and tormented, tender and terrible, an avenger devoured by the injustice done to him, attached to the loss of V. who had abandoned him. I have carried the Act of Foundation for 20 years to the four corners of the world. However, at that moment, in June 1964, this lovely haughty language that invited one to fight for truth, to chase the infidels from the holy land, which posed the ...

On Feminine Sexuality the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX Encore ...

5 reviews
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

This is an excellent translation of a key Lacan text.
In his translation of this, one of Lacan's late and most provocative seminars, Bruce Fink not only clarifies and corrects mistakes in the Jacqueline Rose translation, _Feminine Sexuality_, but offers the _entire_ Seminar XX with careful attention paid to Lacan's multivalent language. Extensively footnoting Lacan's text, Fink aims to open up fully Lacan's references and wordplay, and this ...

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11)

5 reviews
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

No explanation needed. Lacan rocks my world.
Most people who have read Lacan did so in an academic context, which can sour one's experience of truly useful texts. Yet I encourage those of you interested in learning more about psychoanalytic theory, and the way humans ARE in general, to pick up the Four Fun Concepts. Of course its content is difficult and subject to debate, but the benefits of reading Lacan, especially in conjunction ...

The Psychoses 1955-1956 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

4 reviews
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Lacan and the father
Lacan's seminars are superior to his articles because he clearly is addressing an audience, and needs to make himself understood, but he has already anticipated all of his students questions, as if he could read their minds: "I know what you're thinking." The argument of the third seminar is easy to summarize: the psychotic, because foreclosed from the father, faces a hole in the imaginary that ...

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

2 reviews
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Satisfaction of Hours
Lacan is one of the most enigmatic, fascinating, and turgid philosophers (argue if you will)/creators to have ever lived. This volume is Lacan at his best. One may spend hours on an essay, Das Ding, for example. The pay-off, however, is incalculable. His interpretation of Antigone in this volume rates among the best ever elaborated by a theorist of any type. He shows this first true literary ...

Lacanian Ink 30 - Objet a
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2007

Is objet a, insofar as it lacks its mirror image, the vampiric object (vampires, as we know, do not generate their image in a mirror)? It may seem so: are vampires not versions of undead partial objects? However, perhaps, the exact opposite is more appropriate as an image of objet a: when we look at a thing directly, in reality, we don t see it - this it only appears when we look at the thing s mirror image, as if there is, in the mirror ...

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book I : Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1954 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)

1 review
Jacques Lacan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Lacan before Lacan
There are still traces of Kojeve in the Lacan's first seminar, and Kojeve mixed with sociobiology (pigeons and the imaginary) and the ego and the id. The imaginary will at this point play a larger role than it will later, as will the ego (formed out of the imaginary and the mirror stage), but at the same time the origin of negativity and aggression, located in an alienating picture of ...

Lacanian Ink 11
Jacques-Alain Miller

Lacanian Ink, 1997

Lacan avec Joyce

Lacanian Ink 29 - Otherness
Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou - Josefina Ayerza - Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2007

The paradoxical figure of the individual who stands for the big Other. One should not think primarily of the leader-figures who directly embody/personify their community (king, president, master), but, rather, of the more mysterious figures of protectors of appearances. Today, it seems that appearances no longer have to be protected. We all know the innocent child from Andersen's "The Emperors New Clothes" who publicly proclaims the fact that ...

The Tenderness of Terrorists
Jacques-Alain Miller

Wooster Pr, 2002

The fact of the unconscious stops you, in effect, from taking advantage of your good faith, your good intention, your beautiful soul. "I didn't want that" is not worthy of absolution. Yes, what you have done, or that which results from what you have done, you wanted. The consequences instruct you. Man is condemned not to know what he wanted until after the fact. The beginning of analysis is signaled by a gesture that made Lacan famous: ...

Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII sic vi ([sic] Series)

Duke University Press, 2006

This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan?s Seminar XVII . Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan?s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important contribution to social and political issues. Collecting important analyses by many of the major Lacanian theorists and practitioners, this anthology ...

Los Usos del Lapso
Jacques Alain Miller

Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 2004

Lacanian Ink 17

1 review
Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2000

Extremely insightful
Lacanian Ink provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of French psychoanalyst-philosopher Jacques Lacan. The essays by authors as diverse as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Jacques -Alain Miller, David Hayman and Juliet Flower-McCannell as well as art critics such as Raphael Rubinstein, David Ebony and Josefina Ayerza, and feminist-theorists Peggy Phelan, Jan Avgikos and Joan ...

First Letter addressed by Jacques-Alain Miller to An Enlightened Public
Jacques-Alain Miller

Wooster Pr, 2001

Jacques-Alain Miller rekindles war among psychoanalytical schools: "Exas-peration is one thing, but thanks to my exasperation I'm going to change the balance of power in the psycho-analytical milieu." What is the matter now between Freudians and Lacanians? Is it just a mere skirmish? Or something bigger, more akin to a leveraged buyout? Jacques-Alain Miller is the trustee of Lacan's writings, all of them. Besides, he holds a major position in ...

Lacanian Ink 18
Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2001

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