The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Psychoses

by Jacques Lacan

Book Overview

Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as foreclosure, or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393316122
• ISBN13: 9780393316124
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"