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In his psycholinguistic exploration of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge, Jacques Lacan leads into an new way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives.

Provides an introduction to the author's thoughts. Drawing on examples from popular culture and common sense, this book explores a range of the author's important ideas, including his debt to Freud, linguistic unconsciousness and sexuality in its relation to psychoanalytic truth.

Offers access to Jacques Lacan's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behaviour; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary world.

Provides an introduction to the author's thoughts. Drawing on examples from popular culture and common sense, this book explores a range of the author's important ideas, including his debt to Freud, linguistic unconsciousness and sexuality in its relation to psychoanalytic truth.

Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. This translation of his complete works offers access to Lacan's seminal thinking on diverse subjects touched upon over the course of his inimitable intellectual career.

Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. This translation of his works offers access to Lacan's seminal thinking on diverse subjects touched upon over the course of his inimitable intellectual career.

Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence on contemporary thought and culture.

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Jacques Lacan is one of the important thinkers of the 20th century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural and media studies. This work is a transcript of his important lecture series. It includes readings of Sophocles' Antigone and Elizabethan courtly love poetry in relation to female sexuality.

Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications for philosophy and literary criticism. He held that if the unconscious exists, it functions linguistically rather than symbolically. Includes a study that explains his work and relates it to the context of contemporary thought.

During the third year of his famous seminar, Jaques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis. He focuses on grappling with the distinctions between neuroses and the psychoses and erects a structure for psychosis.

Jacques Lacan has had a major influence on contemporary discourse. This translation of selected writings from his famous work offers access to nine of his most significant contributions to psychoanalytical theory and technique, spanning 30 years of his intellectual career.

Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence influence on contemporary thought and culture.

Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence influence on contemporary thought and culture.

A translation of Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order which offers access to the author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behaviour; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary world.

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