Name: the psychoses 1955-1956
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Author: Lacan, Jacques ; Miller, Jacques-Alain ; Grigg, Russell
ISBN: 9780393316124

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jacques Lacan

Illustrated by

Jacques-Alain Miller

Russell Grigg

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Pages

341

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN

0393316122

ISBN13

9780393316124

Synopsis "the psychoses 1955-1956"

Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as foreclosure, or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications for treatment. In these lectures on the psychoses, Lacan's renowned theory of metaphor and metonymy, along with the concept of the quilting point, appears for the first time.

Jacques Lacan

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(Paris, 1901 — 1981). He was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for the theoretical contributions he made to psychoanalysis based on analytical experience and the reading of Freud, while also incorporating elements of structuralism, structural linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy.

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Jacques-Alain Miller

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He is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He began his training with Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he met at the age of 16. He then entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where, in 1964, he met Jacques Lacan. He attended Roland Barthes' seminars at the École pratique des hautes études. He was a disciple of Louis Althusser, along with Jacques Rancière and Ettiene Balibar. Driven by Althusser to study Lacan's complete works, he later formed a close relationship with the psychoanalyst and married his daughter Judith.

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