Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing'

by Adrian Johnston

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319575139
• ISBN13: 9783319575131
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"