Why Psychoanalysis? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)1 review Elisabeth Roudinesco Columbia University Press, 2003 pensive and pendulous Psychoanalysis as a necessary and reasonable practice is defended and reviewed.. Roudinesco's book neatly narrates the contentious 20th century history of psychoanalysis in France and the United States. The author describes psychoanalyis as a deeply human(e) practice, a practice allied with ...             The Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis)8 reviews Slavoj Zizek Verso, 1989 groundbreaking + THE best introduction to hegel, marx, freud, and lacan + A True First Step + Invigorating, diaphanous, decentered + Making Ideology fun             Course in General Linguistics (Open Court Classics)10 reviews Ferdinand la Saussure, Roy Harris Open Court, 1998 Ferdinand De Saussure = Father Of The Modern Sausage + FUNDAMENTAL + Course in General LInguistics + Foundation of modern Linguistics + The Essential De Saussure ...             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. + The Master - but not for all! 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 ...             The Psychoses 1955-1956 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Bk 3)4 reviews Jacques Lacan W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 Lacan and the father + understanding is the best thing in the world + Review of Jacques Lacan's Seminar on The Psychoses + A Lacan to be Read             The Lacanian Subject5 reviews Bruce Fink Princeton University Press, 1996 THE Best Intro into Lacan Part 1 + The best introduction to Lacan + The best so far. + A first-rate introduction to Lacanian thought             On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore6 reviews Jacques-Alain Miller, Bruce Fink W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 This is an excellent translation of a key Lacan text. + Simply amazing + There's such a thing as One 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 ...             Reading Seminar XI: Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis : Including the First English ... State University of New York Press, 1995 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 of Lacan's ...             Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners (Norton Professional Books)3 reviews Bruce Fink W. W. Norton, 2007 Readiness is All + psychanalysis revisited + Practicing clinicians should start here to learn about Lacan Farthest from what may be in the consciousness of American psychoanalysts concerning Lacan is the idea of him as someone logical. His larger-than-life personality, theatrics, provocative language verging on a kind of surrealism, and the often vicious rumors surrounding his clinical practice ...             Introduction to the Reading of Lacan : The Unconscious Structured Like a Language (Lacanian Clinical Field)5 reviews Joel Dor Other Press, 1998 An optimal introduction to the (difficult ) reading of Lacan + The Best Introduction to Lacan + A good book which delivers what it promises. + Rigorous and demystifying             Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely2 reviews Bruce Fink University of Minnesota Press, 2004 Fink is the Man + Another excellent book from Fink As an undergraduate philosophy student, I'll never forget the day I stumbled across Fink's "Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory." I remember reading the first couple of pages and being immediately sucked in. People come to therapy not because they want to rid themselves of their ...             Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII [Series: SIC 6] 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 ...             Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Slavoj Zizek Duke University Press, 1993 In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted the most compelling evidence available for recognizing Jacques Lacan as the preemient philosopher of ...             Lacanian Ink 27 - The Names-of-the-Father Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou The Wooster Press, 2006 When, in his "Rapport de Rome", Lacan refers to Hegel’s “Absolute Knowing,” one should read closely his indications of how he conceives this identification of the analyst with the Hegelian master, and not succumb to the temptation of quickly retranslating the “Absolute Knowing” into the accomplished symbolization. For Lacan, the analyst stands for the Hegelian master, embodiment of “Absolute ...             The Parallax View (Short Circuits)10 reviews Slavoj Žižek The MIT Press, 2006 Very insightful + Food for thought It's a synthesis in Zizek's trajectory, but also it opens his work toward new discussions             Gaze and Voice As Love Objects1 review Duke University Press, 1996 A fascinating collection of Lacanian commentary Ever since Jacques Lacan entered the intellectual ring in the 1950s he has been a focal point of discussion and stimulation. His elusive, intriguing, often profound writings have generated wave upon wave of commentary and inspiration. Slavoj Zizek is one of the most lucid (and certainly ...             Reading Seminar XX: Lacan's Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality State University of New York Press, 2002 Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.             An Introductory Dictionary Of Lacanian Psychoanalysis4 reviews Dylan Evans Routledge, 1996 Excellent reference on Lacanian terminology + Excellent reference! Extremely useful + Clear and Concise + A great intoduction to a great man...             The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)2 reviews Jacques Lacan W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Satisfaction of Hours + where's the ding? 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 ...             Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan's Return to Freud (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)2 reviews State University of New York Press, 1996 Read this book before Ecrits. + precisely A collection of seminars given by many of the most prominent Lacanians, this book is ESSENTIAL reading for anyone who claims to know anything about Lacan (this includes you, Lit. professors). The exposition is clear and elegant and makes for a damned rewarding read.