The Psychoses: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Contributor(s): Lacan, Jacques (Author), Miller, Jacques-Alain (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415101832 ISBN-13: 9780415101837 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1993 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 616.89 |
Series: Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 352 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: During the third year of his famous seminar, Jacques Lacan gives a concise definition of psychoanalysis: 'Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language.' Since psychosis is a special but emblematic case of language entrapment, Lacan devotes much of this year to grappling with distinctions between the neuroses and the psychoses. As he compared the two, relationships, symmetries, and contrasts emerge that enable him to erect a structure for psychosis. |