In his psycholinguistic exploration of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge, Jacques Lacan leads into an new way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives.

Educated by the Marist Brothers, Jacques Lacan was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality.

Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications for philosophy and literary criticism.

Together with Seminar I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954, being published simultaneously with this volume, this early seminar of Jacques Lacan's renowned teaching forms the most accessible starting point for gaining access to his ...

Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition.

A classic work on Freud by one of France's foremost philosophers and literary critics. "This work excites and fascinates." -- Le Monde

Probes the relationship between psychoanalysis and science and religion as well as defining the unconscious, the repetition, the transference, and the drive as the underlying concepts of psycho-analysis.

This important volume, which forms Book X of TheSeminar of Jacques Lacan, will be of great interest to studentsand practitioners of psychoanalysis and to students and scholarsthroughout the humanities and social sciences, from literature ...

What does Lacan show us?

An introduction to the works of the French psychoanalyst and thinker. An account is given of Lacan's thought, explaining its relevance both inside and outside psychoanalysis.