Lacan / Alain Vanier ; translated by Susan Fairfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanier, Alain.

Series:

Lacanian clinical field

The Lacanian clinical field

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 104 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2000]

Summary:

In this concise study, Alain Vanier offers a clear and informed reassessment of Lacans multitude of writings and ideas and how they revolutionized psychoanalysis. Specialists and newcomers alike will appreciate this examination of Lacan, a complex and influential figure who was by turns a master, a charlatan, and a surrealist artist.Unbecoming characterizations are legion in the attempts to define Lacan. . . . With this synthesizing work one will better understand the essential contribution of his work. Cultures en MouvementVaniers presentation clearly and succinctly reveals Lacans final effort to mold his theory in a formal language. . . . The very quickness of the presentation, while avoiding reductionism, renders vivid and exciting the landmarks of Lacans thought.Etudes

Contents:

The Lacanian Clinical Field: Series Overview vii

1. Milestones 1

1953: Break with the International and Introduction of New Concepts 1

The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real 2

The Rome Discourse 6

Biographical Elements and Early Writings 12

2. The Imaginary 17

The Optical Model of the Ideals of the Person 21

Ego Ideal and Ideal Ego 29

3. The Symbolic 35

The Subject 37

Language and Speech 39

The Signifier 42

The Father 44

4. The Real 51

Objet A 52

Movements of the Object 58

Sexuation 65

The Borromean Knot 73

The Father in Question 77.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [93]-98) and index.

ISBN:

1892746506

OCLC:

45209125