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The Psychoses 1955-1956 (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780393316124
ISBN: 0393316122
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 341
Publication Date: 1997-07
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Sometimes controversial, invariably fascinating, Lacan's psycholinguistic approach to analysis of the psychoses is seen here in virtually unmediated form. Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as "foreclosure," or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications for treatment. In these lectures on the psychoses, Lacan's renowned theory of metaphor and metonymy, along with the concept of the "quilting point," appears for the first time.
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Rating:  - understanding is the best thing in the world
not just psychosis, but also delusion and paranoia. lacan's starting point is freud's case study of daniel paul schreber, and the text freud used, schreber's memoirs of my nervous illness, a book written by judge schreber 'during the last months of his confinement....an extremely trustworthy and extraordinarily composed' book, lacan said. also 'you will appreciate the courteous tone, the clarity and order.'
lacan himself was courteous, which lends emphathy to the subjects with whom he ... Read More
Rating: - Review of Jacques Lacan's Seminar on The Psychoses
This is an essential book for understanding Lacan's overall theoretical framework. Despite the esoteric sounding title, it is not just for specialists and doesn't just treat the subject of psychosis. Lacan reviews and repeats here with greater clarity the theories he developed in his first two seminars.
Rating: - Lacan and the father
Lacan's seminars are superior to his articles because he clearly is addressing an audience, and needs to make himself understood, but he has already anticipated all of his students questions, as if he could read their minds: "I know what you're thinking." The argument of the third seminar is easy to summarize: the psychotic, because foreclosed from the father, faces a hole in the imaginary that is filled by the symbolic (or is it the other way around?), hence the hallucinations and voices. ... Read More
Rating: - A Lacan to be Read
The work of Jacques Lacan is infamous for the often obtuseness of its language and presentation. It is often said that the reader must work hard at Lacan to reach a glimmer of understanding. The work of Dr Russell Grigg as translator to this edition certainly gives the reader a head start. Dr Grigg address the work of Lacan from a new perspective of the 21st century, nolonger happy for the work to remain arcane and cloistered from the reading public, but he throws open the windows of further understanding ... Read More
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