Arguing with Lacan: Ego Psychology and Language

by Joseph H. Smith

The writings of Jacques Lacan have been seminal in the ongoing debate on the place of language in the construction of reality and the self. In this book, psychoanalyst Joseph H.Smith summarizes portions of his own and Lacan's readings of Freud on the unconscious and shows that the differences between Lacan's theories and American ego psychology are far less absolute than Lacan would have us believe. Lacan's claim that the unconscious is structured...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300048955
• ISBN13: 9780300048957
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"