Jacques Lacan (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

✍ Scribed by Sean Homer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts and his writing on: the imaginary and the symbolic the Oedipus Complex and the meaning of the phallus the subject and the unconscious the real *sexual difference. Locating Lacan's work in the context of contemporary French thought and the history of psychoanalysis, Sean Homer's Jacques Lacan is the ideal introduction to this influential theorist.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Series editor's preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
WHY LACAN?......Page 14
KEY IDEAS......Page 28
The imaginary......Page 30
The symbolic......Page 46
The Oedipus complex and the meaning of the phallus......Page 64
The subject of the unconscious......Page 78
The real......Page 94
Sexual difference......Page 108
AFTER LACAN......Page 124
FURTHER READING......Page 142
Works cited......Page 154
Index......Page 164