Lacan in Contexts

by David Macey

Book Overview

In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan's work. He shows that key elements of Lacanian thought relate not to structuralism, as is often claimed, but to surrealism, Bataille and the early French phenomenologists. The famous "return to Freud" is shown to mask Lacan's adherence to a psychiatric tradition and to trends within French...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860919420
• ISBN13: 9780860919421
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"