A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized a range of fields. The volume aims to introduce Lacan's vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner. The volume is s[...]

The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth and twenty-first century thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and were conveyed in a dense and abstract form. Lacan's detractors have accused him[...]

"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality. He was wonderfully able to speak to Catholics and to brin[...]

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said, "The Name-of-the-Father creates the function of t[...]

When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who introduces the dimension of an especially playful wit that runs through his work, as much in his prose as[...]

Jacques Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications not only for the analytic movement but also for contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. Lacan held that if the unconscious, as Freud described it, exists, it functions linguistically, rather than symbolically or instinctual[...]

The first and still the most comprehensive introduction to the works of the French psychoanalyst and thinker. For the first time in one book a clear account is given of Lacan's complex and stimulating thought, explaining its relevance both inside and outside psychoanalysis.[...]

Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the intervention on the mirror stage in the Forties to the elaboration of the object-gaze in the Sixties.As a co[...]

Berühmt für die Exzellenz seiner Seminarvorträge, hat Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) wie kein anderer psychoanalytischer Gelehrter nach Freud über die Grenzen seiner Wissenschaft hinaus gewirkt und die Psychoanalyse zur Linguistik,Ethnologie und Philosophie geöffnet. Das lebenslange Bemühen Lacans [...]

Tre forelæsninger af psykoanalytikeren Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)