Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing' 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Johnston, Adrian (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319575139 ISBN-13: 9783319575131 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $132.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Research & Methodology - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Personality |
Dewey: 128.2 |
Series: Palgrave Lacan |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.08 lbs) 257 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan's most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his "return to Freud" as a passionate defence of Freud's disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, Lacan is characteristically cryptic in The Freudian Thing. The combination of his writing style and vast range of references renders much of his thinking inaccessible to all but a narrow circle of scholarly specialists. Johnston's Irrepressible Truth opens up the universe of Lacanian psychoanalysis to much wider audiences by furnishing a sentence-by-sentence interpretive unpacking of this pivotal 1955 essay. In so doing, Johnston reveals the precision, rigor, and soundness of Lacan's teachings. |