The subject of Lacan : a Lacanian reader for psychologists / edited by Kareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malone, Kareen Ror, 1955-

Friedlander, Stephen R., 1944-

Series:

SUNY series, alternatives in psychology

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

xiv, 388 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, intended especially for American psychologists but useful to anyone interested in the work of this important thinker.

Contents:

Intro

The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Kareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander

PART I: Lacan and Psychological Theory

1. The Cartesian Subject without the Cartesian Theatre

2. The Origins and Self-Serving Functions of the Ego

3. Socializing Psycholinguistic Discourse Language as Praxis in Lacan

4. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic Orientationof Religious Experience

5. No Laughing Matter Girls' Comics and the Preparation forAdolescent Femininity

6. Homosexualities from Freud to Lacan

7. Jouissance in the Cure

PART II: Lacan and the Clinic

8. The "Third Party" in Psychoanalysis

9. The Analytic Relationship

10. Some Reflections on Lacan's View of Interpretation

11. How Analysis Cures According to Lacan

12. The Treatment of Psychosis

13. Lacan and Family Therapy?!: Opening a Space for Lacanin American Clinical Practice

PART III: Lacan, Psychology, and Culture

14. How the Fact That There Is No Sexual Relation Gives Rise to Culture

15. Femininity and the Limits of Theory

16. Why Do People Take Prozac?: Anxiety, Symptom, and theInhibition of Responsibility

17. Lacan's Social Psychoanalysis: Religion and Community in a Pluralistic Society

18. Lacan in America

19. Looking for Lacan: Virtual Psychology

20. Executors of an Ancient Pact

Glossary of Lacanian Terms

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791492376

0791492370

9780585418377

0585418373

OCLC:

868030828