The Emptiness of Oedipus: Identification and Non-Identification in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

by Raul Moncayo

Book Overview

Lacan's seminar on identification marks a turning point from the early to the later years of his work. In this book, Raul Moncayo builds on many of the concepts that Lacan developed in his seminar, focusing on the relationship between the unary trait and narcissism that occurs via ruling ideas, master signifiers, and the objet a as a part object and a partial form of identification. Moncayo advances Lacanian psychoanalysis not only for its scholarly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415608295
• ISBN13: 9780415608299
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"