...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX

by Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller

"A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautr?amont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why so? They certainly tickle something in us. Lacan says what it is. It's about man and woman.

There is neither accord nor harmony between man and woman. There's no programme, nothing has been predetermined: every move is a shot in the dark, which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745682448
• ISBN13: 9780745682440
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"