Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis

by Samuel Weber and Samuel Weber

Book Overview

In this major work, leading theorist Samuel Weber provides a much-needed introduction to the thought of Jacques Lacan. Professor Weber approaches his subject from a dual perspective: he reads Lacan in the light of Freud (whose work Lacan is concerned to interpret), and from the perspective of structuralism, above all Saussure, from whom Lacan borrows and develops a distinctive conception of language as 'signifier'. Lacan is shown to contribute crucially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521374103
• ISBN13: 9780521374101
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"