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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (Short Circuits)
by Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's... (more)
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How to Read Lacan (How to Read)
by Slavoj Žižek
The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jacques Lacan's core ideas about enjoyment, which re-created our concept of psychoanalysis.
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
by Slavoj Žižek
Zizek takes a look through the Rear Window and other cultural classics at the question of human agency in a postmodern world.
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Ecrits
by Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink, Alan Sheridan
“Fink’s precise new translation makes this pivotal period in Lacan’s thought more accessible to English speakers.”— Publishers Weekly , starred review Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete works offers welcome, readable access to Lacan's... (more)
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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VII
by Jacques Lacan, Dennis Porter, Jacques-Alain Miller
One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers. 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 illuminates Freud's psychoanalytic work and its continued influence.... (more)
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Enjoy Your Symptom! : Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
by Slavoj Žižek
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to The Matrix and referencing along the way such figures as Lenin and Hegel, Michel Foucault and Jesus... (more)
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The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XI
by Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. 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 wanted to... (more)
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Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1952
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book I
by Jacques Lacan
Text: English, French (translation)
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Introducing Lacan, 3rd Edition (Introducing)
by Darian Leader, Richard Appignanesi
Jaques Lacan is now taking his place as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud, although recognition of his status has been delayed by fierce arguments over the complexity of his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst and writer, "Introducing Lacan" elucidates the central ideas of Lacanian theory. It guides the reader through Lacan's early studies of paranoia to his subsequent analytical... (more)
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Philosophy for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book)
by Richard Osborne
A witty illustrated introduction to Western philosophy samples the wisdom of 2,500 philosophers, offering definitions of such terms as "Platonic forms" and "Irrationalism." By the author of Society and Sociology of Literature. Original.
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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading
In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's story together with these... (more)
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La Suspension Politica de La Etica (Seccion de Obras de Filosofia)
by Zizek Slavoj
Mirada abarcadora y aguda a la modernidad, que recorre los diversos proyectos críticos y políticos del último siglo: el stalinismo, el nazismo, Levinas, Habermas, Adorno, Agamben o Balibar, entre otros, para cuestionar las diversas aristas del capitalismo global; el multiculturalismo, la corrección política, los fundamentalismos, los derechos humanos, el antisemitismo, entre otros temas, son discutidos desde todos... (more)
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Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners (Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book,)
by Donald Palmer
From the author of Looking at Philosophy and Does the Center Hold? comes an illustrated tour through the landscape of structuralism and poststructuralism which helps the reader make sense of the modern and postmodern obsessions with language and with the "disappearance of the individual"--ideas which unite the work of several prominent 20th-century thinkers.
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Resistances of Psychoanalysis (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).)
by Jacques Derrida
In the three essays that make up this stimulating and often startling book, Jacques Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued, and assimilated. The continuing interest in psychoanalysis is here examined in the various “resistances” to analysis—conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as... (more)
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Routledge Critical Thinkers
Jacques Lacan
by Sean Homer
Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts and his writing... (more)
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El Acoso de Las Fantasias
by Slavoj Zizek
Virginia Woolf (Women Writers)Clare Hanson
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Virginia Woolf (Women Writers)
by Clare Hanson
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The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)
by Todd McGowan
Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.
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Male Subjectivity at the Margins
by Kaja Silverman
Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.
Escritos 1 - Jacques LacanJacques Lacan
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Escritos 1 - Jacques Lacan
by Jacques Lacan