Introducing Lacan (Leader Darian)(Paperback)

Introducing Lacan (Leader Darian)(Paperback)

Jacques Lacan's ideas are as influential in the field of psychoanalysis as those of Freud have ever been. Introducing Lacan guides the reader through Lacanian theory, exploring the central pillars of his thought and his bearing on literature, art, philosophy, and

Why Can't We Sleep? (Leader Darian)(Paperback / softback)

Hands - What We Do with Them - and Why (Leader Darian)(Paperback / softback)

Ecrits: A Selection (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback)

Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between

Strictly Bipolar (Leader Darian)(Paperback / softback)

What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions, this title challenges the rise of 'bipolar' as a catch-all solution to complex problems, and argues that we need to rethink the highs and lows of mania and

Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction (Leader Darian)(Paperback)

Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although

New Black - Mourning, Melancholia and Depression (Leader Darian)(Paperback / softback)

What happens when we lose someone we love? In this book, an acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer urges us to look beyond the catch-all concept of depression to explore the deeper, unconscious ways in which we respond to the experience of loss. In so doing, we can loosen the grip it may have upon our

Lacan: A Beginner's Guide (Bailly Lionel)(Paperback)

Lacan without the jargon! Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that 'the structure of unconscious is like a language'. Controversial

The Scarlet Thief (Collard Paul Fraser)(Paperback)

INTRODUCING JACK LARK: SOLDIER, LEADER, IMPOSTER. The first book in the compelling military adventure series for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Matthew Harffy. 'Brilliant' Bernard Cornwell 'Quite simply do yourself a favour and read these books' S.J.A. Turney 'Nobody writing today

Proč nemůžeme spát - Darian Leader

Určitě tu větu znáte: 'Když se pořádně nevyspíš, nebudeš zítra k ničemu.' Z dobrého spánku, jenž má být sladkým odpočinkem, se stal strašák - když jej nedosáhneme, budeme v denních povinnostech selhávat. A tak se ve svých postelích převalujeme, počítáme hodiny,

My Teaching (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of the influential psychoanalyst after

Proč nemůžeme spát? - Darian Leader - e-kniha

eBook: Určitě tu větu znáte: 'Když se pořádně nevyspíš, nebudeš zítra k ničemu.' Z dobrého spánku, jenž má být sladkým odpočinkem, se stal strašák - když jej nedosáhneme, budeme v denních povinnostech selhávat. A tak se ve svých postelích převalujeme, počítáme

Lacan: In Spite of Everything (Roudinesco Elisabeth)(Paperback)

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our

Lacan - The Silent Partners(Paperback / softback)

Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art. Yet what if there is another frame of reference which influenced his thinking and is crucial to its proper understanding? This book focuses on Lacan's 'silent partners,' those who provide a key to Lacanian theory and

Read My Desire - Lacan Against the Historicists (Copjec Joan)(Paperback / softback)

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines--psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback)

This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers welcome, readable access to the brilliant author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in

Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback)

The question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalytic movement since the 1920s. Despite their opposition to each other, contemporary psychoanalysis and feminism both reject Freud's phallocentrism. This book forcefully reasserts the importance of the castration complex in Freud's work

Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely (Fink Bruce)(Paperback)

To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be reconstructed through a line-by-line examination. And this is precisely what Bruce Fink does in this

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique (Alain-Miller Jacques)(Paperback)

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

Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Miller Jacques-Alain)(Paperback)

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 for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that

On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: Encore 1972-1973 (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback)

Introducing Intersectionality (Romero Mary)(Paperback)

Ecrits: A Selection (Lacan Jacques)(Paperback)

Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporary discourses about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. Yet his seemingly impenetrable writing style has kept

Introducing Hinduism (Lal Vinay)(Paperback)

Introducing Hinduism offers a guide to the key philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of this extraordinarily diverse faith. It untangles the complexities of Hinduism's gods and goddesses, its caste system and its views on sex, everyday life and asceticism. This work answers