Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available paperback, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it...

The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar. von Alain-Miller, Jacques;Lacan, Jacques;

When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who introduces the dimension of an especially...

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...

Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with ethical questions and "the attraction of transgression," Lacan...

What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who...

The second half of this illuminating volume, A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, includes the "dossier on the institutional debate." The papers it comprises--such as the July 1953 report from the president of the...

Freuds technische Schriften (Das Seminar von Jacques Lacan, Buch 1)

"Freuds technische Schriften" von Jacques Lacan ist eine Sammlung von Arbeiten, die sich auf die Analyse und Interpretation der Theorien Sigmund Freuds konzentrieren. Lacan, ein bekannter Psychoanalytiker, versucht das komplexe Werk...

"Encore" ist ein Buch des berühmten französischen Psychoanalytikers Jacques Lacan und gehört zu seinen späten Werken. Es enthält die Vorlesungen, die er zwischen 1972 und 1973 im Rahmen seiner Seminarreihe hielt. In diesen Vorlesungen...

In "Das Seminar, Buch 2: Das Ich in der Theorie Freuds und in der Technik der Psychoanalyse" untersucht Jacques Lacan die Konzepte des Selbst und des Unbewussten im Kontext der Theorien Sigmund Freuds. Lacan interpretiert Freuds Ideen...

Ecrits is Lacan's most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 1936 and 1966. This is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his...