The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 write by Jacques Lacan. This book was released on 1988. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Psychanalyse. The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.
Reading Seminars I and II
Reading Seminars I and II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Seminars I and II write by Richard Feldstein. This book was released on 1996-02-22. Reading Seminars I and II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of essays, Lacan's early work is first discussed systematically by focusing on his two earliest seminars: Freud's Papers on Technique and The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis. These essays, by some of the finest analysts and writers in the Lacanian psychoanalytic world in Paris today, carefully lay out the background and development of Lacan's thought. In Part I, Jacques-Alain Miller spells out the philosophical and psychiatric origins of Lacan's work in great detail. In Parts II, III, and IV, Colette Soler, Eric Laurent, and others explain in the clearest of fashions the highly influential conceptualization Lacan introduces with the terms "symbolic," "imaginary," and "real." Part V provides the first sustained account in English to date of Lacan's reformulation of psychoanalytic diagnostic categories--neurosis, perversion, psychosis, and their subcategories--their theoretical foundations, and clinical applications (ample case material is provided here.) Parts VI and VII of this collection take us well beyond Seminars I and II, relating Lacan's early work to his later views of the 1960s and 1970s. Slavoj Zizek explores the complex philosophical relations between Hegel and Lacan regarding the subject and the cause. And Lacan's article, "On Freud's 'Trieb' and the Psychoanalyst's Desire"--that appears here for the first time in English and is brilliantly unpacked by Jacques-Alain Miller in his "Commentary on Lacan's Text"--takes a giant step forward to 1965 where we see a crucial reversal in Lacan's perspective: desire is suddenly devalued, the defensive, inhibiting nature of desire coming to the fore. "What then becomes essential is the drive as an activity related to the lost object that produces jouissance."
Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954
Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 write by Jacques Lacan. This book was released on 1991. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Psychanalyse.
Lacan in Contexts
Lacan in Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lacan in Contexts write by David Macey. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Lacan in Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan's work. He shows that key elements of Lacanian thought relate not to structuralism, as is often claimed, but to surrealism, Bataille and the early French phenomenologists. The famous "return to Freud" is shown to mask Lacan's adherence to a psychiatric tradition and to trends within French psychoanalysis which were opposed by Freud himself. A detailed and challenging reading of work by Lacan and his associates on femininity reveals its reliance upon a virulently sexist discourse and upon an iconography derived from surrealism. The view that Lacanian psychoanalysis has a positive contribution to make to feminism and to theories of gender and sexual difference is contested. As well as providing a new and provocative reading of Lacan's work, Lacan in Contexts is an important contribution to psychoanalytic history and to the history of French intellectual life.
Why Psychoanalysis?
Why Psychoanalysis? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Psychoanalysis? write by Elisabeth Roudinesco. This book was released on 2004-03-10. Why Psychoanalysis? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs. Far from contesting the efficacy of new medications like Prozac, Zoloft, and Viagra in alleviating the symptoms of any number of mental or nervous conditions, Roudinesco argues that the use of such drugs fails to solve patients' real problems. In the man who takes Viagra without ever wondering why he is suffering from impotence and the woman who is given antidepressants to deal with the loss of a loved one, Roudinesco sees a society obsessed with efficiency and desperate for the quick fix. She argues that "the talking cure" and pharmacology represent not just different approaches to psychiatry, but different worldviews. The rush to treat symptoms is itself symptomatic of an antiseptic and depressive culture in which thought is reduced to the firing of neurons and desire is just a chemical secretion. In contrast, psychoanalysis testifies to human freedom and the power of language.
