Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings
The Littoral Word
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:6th May '26
£140.00
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Lacanian Psychoanalytic Writings: The Littoral Word presents cutting-edge Lacanian psychoanalytic thought by leaders in the field.
Each chapter is written by authors who, in one way or another, take up Jacques Lacan’s observation that each psychoanalysis invents psychoanalysis anew. They bring to the field not an orthodoxy but a rigorous singularity which continues to be pertinent to what Freud described as the malaise of civilisation. Megan Willliams brings together important work by Jean Allouch, Christian Fierens, and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne, exploring themes of madness, hysteria, sexuality, and language through a Lacanian lens.
This essential collection will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists. It will also be of interest to academics and scholars of philosophy, cultural studies, literature, and linguistics who engage with psychoanalytic theory.
“The strength of the volume is that it is based in clinical practice, while remaining richly scholarly/theoretical in terms of conceptual apparatus and textual engagement. To those who ask if its ideas are practical, I would reply that clinical practice in the highly poetic field of psychoanalysis can only be enriched by the encounter with original and unabashed thinking, which sparks new energies and avenues in the reader, none of which reactions are predictable in advance, or even likely to be common among a given cohort. In this regard, the volume strikes me as eminently practical, but not in the manner of a recipe.” - Paul Magee, Professor of Poetry, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
ISBN: 9781041196075
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252 pages