JACQUES LACAN
My Teaching
Published 13 April 2009
"I found myself, along with a number of others, on a raft. For ten years we lived on, well, on whatever came to hand. We weren't completely without resources, weren't completely down and out. And in the midst of all that, it so happened that what I had to say about psychoanalysis began to have a certain import."
Lacan
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The most influential psychoanalyst after Freud provides an invaluable introduction to his own work, published in English for the first time, on the anniversary of his birth on 13th April 1901.
Lacan's work has revolutionized linguistics, literature, psychology and cultural studies. My Teaching is the most accessible introduction to his own work that he ever provided. In this book, which brings together lectures originally presented to lay audiences, he abandons his famously esoteric style, offering instead an engaging, witty and personal explanation of his theories.
Drawing on examples from popular culture and common sense, Lacan explores a range of his most important ideas, such as those on the linguistic unconscious and on sexuality. He also provides a general commentary on psychoanalysis and those who practice it, and discusses his debt to Freud.
The psychoanalyst JACQUES LACAN (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Écrits and The Seminars.
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Praise for the French Edition:
"What does one discover in this book? First of all a language which, far from being jargon-heavy, has the ring of luminous clarity. Next, a sense of humour which delights in paradoxes, hops from one subject to another and takes the reader from the most elementary level to the most complex. A thought, of course, which cannot be easily summarized. A benevolence too, which reassures the layperson and helps when following the course of the talk. Finally, an immense fidelity which never ceases to invite us to reread Freud."
Elle
"This is certainly a book to recommend to all those who want to have a look at what Lacan has to say but who are reluctant to tackle his Écrits or his Seminars."
Sciences humaines
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ISBN 9781844672714 / £8.99 / $16.95 / Paperback / 120 pages
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