The Cambridge Companion to Lacan |
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Editor:
| Rabaté, Jean-Michel |
Series title: | Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-80744-9 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2003 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $108.95 |
Book Description:
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This collection of specially commissioned essays explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work still is influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. This Companion focus on key-terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh,...
More DescriptionThis collection of specially commissioned essays explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work still is influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. This Companion focus on key-terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of an intimidating and influential thinker.